José F Aranda

The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948

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Produktbeschreibung

José F. Aranda Jr. demonstrates how the burdens of modernity become the dominant discursive logic for understanding why people of Mexican descent nonetheless wrote and invested in print culture without any guarantee of its social, cultural, or political efficacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781496229106
• ISBN-10: 149622910X
• Artikelnr.: 61433003

Autorenporträt

José F. Aranda Jr. is a professor of Chicanx and American literature at Rice University. He is the author of When We Arrive: A Literary History of Mexican America.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Recovering Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature
1. Modernity Deferred: “There Never Was a More Peaceful or Happy People”
2. Californio Settler History: Nostalgia as Patrimony
3. Game of Modernities: Coloniality and Racial Loyalty in the U.S. West
4. Me Llaman Mexicana: Gender and Choice under Coloniality
5. Barrio Modernity: Speaking Pocho, Being Chicana/o
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index