Chicano nations
Subtitle: the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature
By: Marissa K. López
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780814752616; 9780814752623; 9780814752630; 9780814753293
Subjects: Mexican Americans in literature; Mexican American authors; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Mexican Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Latinidad abroad: Sarmiento's, Zavala's, and Perez Rosales' narrative maps; title: Mexicanidad at home: Mariano Vallejo's Chicano historiography; title: Racialized bodies and the limits of the abstract: María Mena and Daniel Venegas; title: More life in the skeleton: Caballero and the teleology of race; title: Ana Castillo's 'distinct place in the Americas'; title: Border patrol as global surveillance: post-9/11 Chicana/o detective fiction.