TY - GEN T1 - The places of modernity in early Mexican American literature, 1848-1948 T2 - Postwestern horizons. A1 - Aranda, José F., 1961- LA - English PP - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press YR - 2022 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1287674714 AB - 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. AB - "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"-- OP - 269 CN - PS153.M4 A727 2022 SN - 9781496229908 SN - 1496229908 SN - 9781496229892 SN - 1496229894 SN - 9781496224132 SN - 1496224132 SN - 9781496229106 SN - 149622910X KW - Mexican Americans : Intellectual life. KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - American literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - American literature : Mexican American authors : History and criticism. KW - Américains d'origine mexicaine : Vie intellectuelle. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - Littérature américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature américaine : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature américaine : Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine : Histoire et critique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American KW - Mexican Americans : Intellectual life KW - American literature : Mexican American authors KW - American literature KW - 1800-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - Literary criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -