Trans-Americanity : subaltern modernities, global coloniality, and the cultures of greater Mexico / José David Saldívar.

Author/creator Saldívar, José David
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Descriptionxxxii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Electronic LocationInhaltsverzeichnis
Subjects

SeriesNew Americanists
New Americanists. ^A346168
Contents Unsettling race, coloniality, and caste in Anzaldúa's borderlands/la frontera, Martínez's parrot in the oven, and Roy's the god of small things -- Migratory locations: subaltern modernity and José Martís trans-American cultural criticism -- Looking awry at the war of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo -- In search of the "Mexican Elvis" : border matters, Americanity, and post state-centric thinking -- Making US democracy surreal: political race, transmodern realism, and the miner's canary -- The outernational origins of Chicano/a literature: Paredes's Asian-Pacific routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Américas roots -- Transnationalism contested: on Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango street and caramelo or puro cuento -- Appendix. on the borderlands of U.S. empire: the limitations of geography, ideology, and discipline.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011021962
ISBN9780822350644 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822350645 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822350835 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822350831 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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