Mestizo Nations
Subtitle: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780816521920
Subjects: National characteristics, Latin American, in literature; Mestizaje in literature; History and criticism; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; National characteristics, Lati; Caribbean & Latin American; Ethnic Studies - General; 20th century; Latin American literature
Description: "In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje - which proposes the creation of a homogeneous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements - he examines a selection of texts that represenet the entire history and regional landscape of Latin American culture in its Western, indigenous, and neo-African traditions from Independence to the present. Through them, he delineates some of the ambiguities and contradictions that have beset this discourse."--BOOK JACKET.