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.

Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Aranda, José F., 1961- (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Serie:Postwestern horizons.
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv24rgc67
Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.