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Writing the goodlife : Mexican American literature and the environment / Priscilla Solis Ybarra

Ybarra, Priscilla Solis [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2016] [© 2016]

XX, 216 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm

Englisch

Introduction: defining Mexican American goodlife writingChapter 1. Epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth century novels -- Chapter 2. The coloniality of being and the land: identity in early twentieth century goodlife writing -- Chapter 3. "La santa tierra": Mexican American writing and transcending possession in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 4. Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction: rejecting alienation from the land -- Chapter 5. Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism: creating joyful community in Cherríe Moraga's millenial writings -- Coda: decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-8165-3200-1 ( : paper)

2015033625

OCoLC: 953131048     

OCoLC: 953131048 (aus SWB)     

HU 1727      Ähnliche Literatur

PS153.M4

810.9/86872 ; 306.09

*USA ; Mexikaner ; Autor ; Literatur ; Umweltschutz ; Ökologie      Zum Register

*Geschichte 1800-2015     Zum Register

LOC-SH: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism ; Environmentalism in literature

"The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher

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Introduction: defining Mexican American goodlife writing -- Chapter 1. Epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth century novels -- Chapter 2. The coloniality of being and the land: identity in early twentieth century goodlife writing -- Chapter 3. "La santa tierra": Mexican American writing and transcending possession in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 4. Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction: rejecting alienation from the land -- Chapter 5. Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism: creating joyful community in Cherríe Moraga's millenial writings -- Coda: decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century

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