ISBN:
9780816532001
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 216 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
DDC:
810.9/86872
Keywords:
American literature Mexican American authors
;
History and criticism
;
Environmentalism in literature
;
USA
;
Mexikaner
;
Autor
;
Literatur
;
Umweltschutz
;
Ökologie
;
Geschichte 1800-2015
Abstract:
"The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
