The places of modernity in early Mexican American literature, 1848-1948 /

"In The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, JoseÌ? 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-1...

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Main Author:	Aranda, JoseÌ? F., 1961- (Author)
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Series:	Postwestern horizons.
Subjects:	American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Mexican Americans > Intellectual life. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino. American literature. American literature > Mexican American authors. 1800-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism.

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Summary:	"In The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, JoseÌ? 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"--
Physical Description:	xiii, 269 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
ISBN:	9781496224132 1496224132 9781496229106 149622910X