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Author:

Aranda, José F., 1961- author.

Title:

The places of modernity in early Mexican American literature, 1848-1948 / José F. Aranda Jr.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xiii, 269 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

1800-1999
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature--Mexican American authors.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
Modernism (Literature)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.

Contents:

Barrio modernity: speaking Pocho, being Chicana/o. 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.

Summary:

"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.

Series:

Postwestern horizons

ISBN:

149622910X
9781496229106
1496224132
9781496224132

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1245578928

LCCN:

2021013953

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)