The places of modernity in early Mexican American literature, 1848-1948 / José F. Aranda Jr.
| Author/creator |
Aranda, José F., 1961- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2022 |
| Description | xiii, 269 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Postwestern horizons Postwestern horizons. ^A563724 |
| Contents | Introduction: Recovering modernity in early Mexican American literature -- Modernity deferred: "There never was a more peaceful or happy people" -- Californio settler history: nostalgia as patrimony -- Game of modernities: coloniality and racial loyalty in the U.S. West -- Me llaman Mexicana: gender and choice under coloniality -- Barrio modernity: speaking Pocho, being Chicana/o. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Aranda, José F., 1961- Places of modernity in early Mexican American literature, 1848-1948. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022] 9781496229908 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| LCCN | 2021013953 |
| ISBN | 9781496224132 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1496224132 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781496229106 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 149622910X (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| Other class# | U5001 T974 .0017 -2022 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS153 .M4 A727 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |