The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Author: José F. Aranda Jr.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
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ISBN-13: 1496229908
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Author: José F. Aranda Jr.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: José F. Aranda
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-02
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1496229894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: José F. Aranda
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-02
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1496224132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJosé 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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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
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Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1496239342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Audrey Goodman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1496228391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Christopher Conway
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-06
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 149621899X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.
Author: Michael K. Johnson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1496233506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpeculative 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.
Author: Charles M. Tatum
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 746
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Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780153475009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marissa K. López
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011-10
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0814752624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that the transnationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected the laboring classes. The Spanish empire then began to implode, and colonists in the ?new world? debated the national contours of the viceroyalties. This is where the author locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been ?postnational,? encompassing the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the mestizo.