The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948.
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- computer
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- 9781496229908
- 810.9/86872
- PS153.M4 A736 2022
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Modernity Deferred -- 2. Californio Settler History -- 3. Game of Modernities -- 4. Me Llaman Mexicana -- 5. Barrio Modernity -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
José F. Aranda Jr. demonstrates how the burdens of modernity become the dominant discursive logic for understanding why people of Mexican descent nonetheless wrote and invested in print culture without any guarantee of its social, cultural, or political efficacy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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