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The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Postwestern Horizons SeriesPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496229908
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948DDC classification:
  • 810.9/86872
LOC classification:
  • PS153.M4 A736 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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