Chicano Nations : The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature / / Marissa K. López.

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 th...

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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:American Literatures Initiative ; 4
Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.