Author: José F. Aranda Jr.Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Author: José F. Aranda Jr.Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948
Author: José F. ArandaPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, José F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what has emerged as a canon of earlier pre-1968 Mexican American literature. In order to understand modernity for diverse communities of Mexican Americans, he contends, one must see it as an apprehension, both symbolic and material, of one settler colonial world order giving way to another more powerful colonialist but imperial vision of North America. Letters, folklore, print culture, and literary production demonstrate how a new Anglo-American political imaginary revised and realigned centuries-old discourses on race, gender, class, religion, citizenship, power, and sovereignty. The "modern," Aranda argues, makes itself visible in cultural productions being foisted on a "conquered people," who were themselves beneficiaries of a notion of the modern that began in 1492. For Mexican Americans, modernity is less about any particular angst over global imperial designs or cultures of capitalism and more about becoming the subordinates of a nation-building project that ushers the United States into the twentieth century.
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Author: José F. ArandaPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496224132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Unhomely Wests
Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A Planetary Lens
Author: Audrey GoodmanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496228391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A Planetary Lens delves into the history of the photo-book, the materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural significance of landscape to reassess the value of print, to locate the sites where stories resonate, and to listen to western women’s voices. From foundational California photographers Anne Brigman and Alma Lavenson to contemporary Native poets and writers Leslie Marmon Silko and Joy Harjo, women artists have used photographs to generate stories and to map routes across time and place. A Planetary Lens illuminates the richness and theoretical sophistication of such composite texts. Looking beyond the ideologies of wilderness, migration, and progress that have shaped settler and popular conceptions of the region, A Planetary Lens shows how many artists gather and assemble images and texts to reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the U.S. West. Based on extensive research into the production, publication, and circulation of women’s photo-texts, A Planetary Lens offers a fresh perspective on the entangled and gendered histories of western American photography and literature and new models for envisioning regional relations.
The Comic Book Western
Author: Christopher ConwayPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149621899X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.
Speculative Wests
Author: Michael K. JohnsonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Speculative Wests investigates representations of the American West in terms of both region and genre, looking at speculative westerns (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as at other speculative texts that feature western settings.
Mexican American Literature
Author: Charles M. TatumPublisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Mexican American Literature
Author: TatumPublisher:
ISBN: 9780153475009
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Chicano Nations
Author: Marissa K. LópezPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814752624
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book argues that the transnationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected the laboring classes. The Spanish empire then began to implode, and colonists in the ?new world? debated the national contours of the viceroyalties. This is where the author locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been ?postnational,? encompassing the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the mestizo.