The places of modernity in early Mexican American literature, 1848-1948 /
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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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| Colecção: | Postwestern horizons.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv24rgc67 |
| Resumo: | 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. "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"-- |
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| Descrição Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages). |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781496229908 1496229908 9781496229892 1496229894 9781496224132 1496224132 9781496229106 149622910X |