Author: José F. Aranda Jr.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Author: José F. Aranda Jr.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948
Author: José F. Aranda
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Author: José F. Aranda
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496224132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496224132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Living West as Feminists
Author: Krista Comer
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496241134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496241134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A Planetary Lens
Author: Audrey Goodman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496228391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A 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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496228391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A 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.
The Comic Book Western
Author: Christopher Conway
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149621899X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149621899X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.
Unhomely Wests
Author:
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Speculative Wests
Author: Michael K. Johnson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Speculative 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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Speculative 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.
The Mexican American Heritage
Author: Carlos M. Jiménez
Publisher: TQS Publications
ISBN: 9780892290369
Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fresh & comprehensive look at Mexican history, will be found in this text filled with extensive writing exercises. The Mexican-American Heritage encompasses tens of thousands of years, from the prehistoric native people,. to the extremely advanced civilizations of the Aztecs, Toltecs & Mayans; to the times of Cesar Chavez' farmworker movement, & the struggle of Mexican-Americans as they fight for a better life. An excellent way to understand the Mexican-American heritage.
Publisher: TQS Publications
ISBN: 9780892290369
Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fresh & comprehensive look at Mexican history, will be found in this text filled with extensive writing exercises. The Mexican-American Heritage encompasses tens of thousands of years, from the prehistoric native people,. to the extremely advanced civilizations of the Aztecs, Toltecs & Mayans; to the times of Cesar Chavez' farmworker movement, & the struggle of Mexican-Americans as they fight for a better life. An excellent way to understand the Mexican-American heritage.
Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century
Author: José Angel Hernández
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107378753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, the modernisation of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonisation policies as they developed in the nineteenth century, this book focuses primarily on the population of Mexican citizens who were 'lost' after the end of the Mexican American War of 1846–8 until the end of the century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107378753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, the modernisation of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonisation policies as they developed in the nineteenth century, this book focuses primarily on the population of Mexican citizens who were 'lost' after the end of the Mexican American War of 1846–8 until the end of the century.