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Author Aldama, Arturo J., 1964- author.

Title Disrupting savagism : intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican immigrant, and Native American struggles for self-representation / Arturo J. Aldama
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 186 pages)
Series Latin America otherwise
Latin America otherwise.
Contents PART I. Mapping Subalternity in the U.S./México Borderlands -- 1. The Chicana/o and the Native American "Other" Talk Back: Theories of the Speaking Subject in a (Post?) Colonial Context -- 2. When Mexicans Talk, Who Listens? The Crisis of Ethnography in Situating Early Voices from the U.S./México Borderlands -- PART II. Narrative Disruptions: Decolonization, Dangerous Bodies, and the Politics of Space -- 3. Counting Coup: Narrative Acts of (Re)Claiming Identity in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko -- 4. Toward a Hermeneutics of Decolonization: Reading Radical Subjectivities in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa -- 5. A Border Coda: Dangerous Bodies, Liminality, and the Reclamation of Space in Star Maps by Miguel Arteta
Summary Comparative study through discourses by Gaimo, Silko, Anzaldua and others examining the disruption of the boundaries of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality in Chicano, Mexican and Native American immigrants in the Americas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-173) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic identity
Indians of North America -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic identity
Mestizos -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans in literature.
Indians in literature.
Mestizaje in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Miscegenation in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Decolonization in literature
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity in literature
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
Literature
Mestizaje in literature
Mestizos -- Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans in literature
Miscegenation in literature
SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature
Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations
Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822380016
0822380013