ISBN:
9780826361615
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Series Statement:
Querencia Series
Series Statement:
Querencias Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.86872073
Keywords:
Mexican Americans Ethnic identity
;
Mexican Americans-Ethnic identity
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies explores the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genízaro writers and scholars from across the state.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: Querencia, Mi patria chica by Rudolfo Anaya -- Agradecimientos y Reconocimientos -- Introduction: Mi Querencia, A Connection between Place and Identity by Levi Romero -- Part 1. Community Querencias -- Chapter 1. The Long, Wondrous Life of Ventura Chávez, 1926-2013 by Simón Ventura Trujillo -- Chapter 2. Remapping Patriotic Practices: The Case of the Las Vegas 4th of July Fiestas by Lillian Gorman -- Chapter 3. Critical Reflections on Chicanx and Indigenous Scholarship and Activism by Kevin Brown, Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Tey Marianna Nunn, Irene Vásquez, and Myla Vicenti Carpio -- Part 2. Screening Querencias -- Chapter 4. Contested Querencia in The Last Conquistador (2008) by John J. Valadez and Cristina Ibarra by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez -- Chapter 5. Deep Roots in Community: Querencia and Salt of the Earth by Karen R. Roybal -- Chapter 6. New Mexico Triptych: Querencia Etched in Wood, in Media, and in Our Memory by Spencer R. Herrera -- Part 3. Memory as Querencia -- Chapter 7. (Re)Signifying Gender and Sexuality for the Nuevomexicana Historical Body: The Politics of Reading Place in Women's Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie by Bernandine Hernández -- Chapter 8. Erasing Querencia from Los Alamos: Racist and Sexualized Portrayals of New Mexican Women and Place in the Television Series Manhattan by Myrriah Gómez -- Chapter 9. Mestiza Consciousness a la MeXicana in Ultima and Agueda Martínez: Bridging and Legitimizing Querencia in the Borderlands by Norma A Valenzuela -- Part 4. Cultural Landscapes of Querencia -- Chapter 10. Ak'u, Beloved by C. Maurus Chino -- Chapter 11. Homeland Security: Sustaining Indigenous Culture and People through Narrative (Re)Remembering and Future (Re)Imagining in Simon Ortiz's Men on the Moon and Woven Stone by Jonathan Wilson.
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