Border renaissance
Subtitle: the Texas centennial and the emergence of Mexican American literature
By: John Morán González.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780292719781
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans in literature; Race in literature; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Literature and history -- Texas; Texas -- In literature; Texas -- Centennial celebrations, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: renaissance in the borderlands; title: "Texanizing Texans": Texas centennial discourses of racial pedagogy; title: "This is our grand lone star state": reclaiming Texas history in Elena Zamora O'Shea's El mesquite; title: Forging bicultural U.S. citizenship: LULAC and the making of Mexican American aesthetics; title: A Mexico-Texan interlude: Americo Paredes, border modernity, and the demise of patriarchal anticolonialism; title: Mujeres fronterizas: writing tejana agency into the Texas centennial era.