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.
Living West as Feminists
Author: Krista ComerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Moving from travelogue to interviews to critical meditations, Living West as Feminists goes on the road to meet and interview U.S. western feminists, putting them into conversation with one another about some of the most challenging and forward-looking topics in contemporary life.
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.
Choice
Author: The Mexican American Heritage
Author: Carlos M. JiménezPublisher: TQS Publications
ISBN: 9780892290369
Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fresh & comprehensive look at Mexican history, will be found in this text filled with extensive writing exercises. The Mexican-American Heritage encompasses tens of thousands of years, from the prehistoric native people,. to the extremely advanced civilizations of the Aztecs, Toltecs & Mayans; to the times of Cesar Chavez' farmworker movement, & the struggle of Mexican-Americans as they fight for a better life. An excellent way to understand the Mexican-American heritage.