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Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature

Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature

López, Marissa K.

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Series: American Literatures Initiative, Book 4

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 0814752624
ISBN13: 9780814752623
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 2011
Pages: 269
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.67 Width: 8.98 Depth: 6.07
Language: English

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series

Chicano Nations argues that the transnationalism 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 laboring 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. López locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been postnational, encompassing the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the mestizo. Tracing its long history and the diversity of subject positions it encompasses, Chicano Nations explores the shifting literary forms authors have used to write the nation from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.


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