Chicano nations : the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature /
This book argues that the transnationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected the labori...
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New York University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Latinidad abroad: Sarmiento's, Zavala's, and Perez Rosales' narrative maps
- Mexicanidad at home: Mariano Vallejo's Chicano historiography
- Racialized bodies and the limits of the abstract: María Mena and Daniel Venegas
- More life in the skeleton: Caballero and the teleology of race
- Ana Castillo's 'distinct place in the Americas'
- Border patrol as global surveillance: post-9/11 Chicana/o detective fiction.