Julie Avril Minich

Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Julie Avril Minich is Assistant Professor of English, with concurrent appointments in the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Center for Women and Gender Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• American Litera
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 142mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910702
• ISBN-10: 1439910707
• Artikelnr.: 39224535

Autorenporträt

Julie Avril Minich is Assistant Professor of English, with concurrent appointments in the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Center for Women and Gender Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
Accessibility and Nationalism: An Introduction
 
PART ONE The Body Politic of Aztlán 
1 Enabling Aztlán: Arturo Islas Jr. and Chicano Cultural Nationalism
2 "My Country Was Not Like That": Cherríe Moraga, Felicia Luna Lemus, and
National Failure
 
PART TWO Immobilizing the Border 
3 "So Much Life in the Still Waters": Alex Espinoza and the Ideology of
Ability in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
4 No Nation for Old Men? Racialized Aging and Border-Crossing Narratives by
Guillermo Arriaga, Tommy Lee Jones, and Oscar Casares
 
PART THREE Beyond Citizenship 
5 Overcoming the Nation: Ana Castillo, Cecile Pineda, and the Stakes of
Disability Identity
 
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index