Chicano nations : the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature /

López, Marissa K.

Chicano nations : the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature / Marissa K. López. - New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (x, 258 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243) and index.

Latinidad abroad: Sarmiento's, Zavala's, and Perez Rosales' narrative maps -- Mexicanidad at home: Mariano Vallejo's Chicano historiography -- Racialized bodies and the limits of the abstract: María Mena and Daniel Venegas -- More life in the skeleton: Caballero and the teleology of race -- Ana Castillo's 'distinct place in the Americas' -- Border patrol as global surveillance: post-9/11 Chicana/o detective fiction.

Chicano Nations argues that the trans-nationalism 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 labouring classes. The Spanish empire then began to implode, and colonists in the "new world" debated the national contours of the viceroyalties. This is where Marissa K. Lopez locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been "post-national," encompas

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American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine--Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine--Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine mexicaine--Vie intellectuelle.
Américains d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
American literature--Mexican American authors.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.


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