Trans-Americanity : subaltern modernities, global coloniality, and the cultures of greater Mexico / José David Saldívar.

Saldívar, José David.
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
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Part of the series New Americanists;New Americanists.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index.
  • Unsettling race, coloniality, and caste in Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/la frontera, Martínez’s Parrot in the oven, and Roy’s The god of small things — Migratory locations : subaltern modernity and José Martís trans-American cultural criticism — Looking awry at the war of 1898 : Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo — In search of the Mexican Elvis : border matters, Americanity, and post state-centric thinking — Making US democracy surreal : political race, transmodern realism, and the miner’s canary — The outernational origins of Chicano/a literature : Paredes’s Asian-Pacific routes and Hinojosa’s Cuban Casa de las Américas roots — Transnationalism contested : on Sandra Cisneros’s The house on Mango street and Caramelo or Puro Cuento — Appendix: On the borderlands of U.S. empire : the limitations of geography, ideology, and disciplinarity.

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