Title: Mestizo Nations
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.
Subjects: Nationalism in literature, National characteristics, Latin American, in literature, Literature and society, Latin American literature, Mestizaje in literature, History and criticism, Mestiezen, Culturele identiteit, Latino-Américains dans la littérature, Literatur, Nationale identiteit, Littérature et société, Littérature latino-américaine, Mestizisierung, Métissage dans la littérature, Nationalisme dans la littérature, Letterkunde, Histoire et critique, Spaans, Rassenverhoudingen, Geschichte, Latin american literature, history and criticism, National characteristics in literature