Border renaissance : the Texas centennial and the emergence of Mexican American literature
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Border renaissance : the Texas centennial and the emergence of Mexican American literature
（History, culture, and society series）
University of Texas Press, 2009
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780292719781
Description
The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican Americans created literary responses that critiqued these racialized representations while forging a new bilingual, bicultural community within the United States. The development of a modern Tejana identity, controversies surrounding bicultural nationalism, and other conflictual aspects of the transformation from mexicano to Mexican American are explored in this study. Capturing this fascinating aesthetic and political rebirth, Border Renaissance presents innovative readings of important novels by Maria Elena Zamora O'Shea, Americo Paredes, and Jovita Gonzalez. In addition, the previously overlooked literary texts by members of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are given their first detailed consideration in this compelling work of intellectual and literary history.
Drawing on extensive archival research in the English and Spanish languages, John Moran Gonzalez revisits the 1930s as a crucial decade for the vibrant Mexican American reclamation of Texas history. Border Renaissance pays tribute to this vital turning point in the Mexican American struggle for civil rights.
Table of Contents
* Preface and Acknowledgments * Introduction: Renaissance in the Borderlands * Chapter 1: "Texanizing Texans": Texas Centennial Discourses of Racial Pedagogy * Chapter 2: "This Is Our Grand Lone Star State": Reclaiming Texas History in Elena Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite * Chapter 3: Forging Bicultural U.S. Citizenship: LULAC and the Making of Mexican American Aesthetics * Chapter 4: A Mexico-Texan Interlude: Americo Paredes, Border Modernity, and the Demise of Patriarchal Anticolonialism * Chapter 5: Mujeres Fronterizas: Writing Tejana Agency into the Texas Centennial Era * Epilogue: From Centennial to Sesquicentennial * Notes * Works Cited * Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780292725799
Description
The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican Americans created literary responses that critiqued these racialized representations while forging a new bilingual, bicultural community within the United States. The development of a modern Tejana identity, controversies surrounding bicultural nationalism, and other conflictual aspects of the transformation from mexicano to Mexican American are explored in this study. Capturing this fascinating aesthetic and political rebirth, Border Renaissance presents innovative readings of important novels by Maria Elena Zamora O'Shea, Americo Paredes, and Jovita Gonzalez. In addition, the previously overlooked literary texts by members of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are given their first detailed consideration in this compelling work of intellectual and literary history.
Drawing on extensive archival research in the English and Spanish languages, John Moran Gonzalez revisits the 1930s as a crucial decade for the vibrant Mexican American reclamation of Texas history. Border Renaissance pays tribute to this vital turning point in the Mexican American struggle for civil rights.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Renaissance in the Borderlands
Chapter 1: "Texanizing Texans": Texas Centennial Discourses of Racial Pedagogy
Chapter 2: "This Is Our Grand Lone Star State": Reclaiming Texas History in Elena Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite
Chapter 3: Forging Bicultural U.S. Citizenship: LULAC and the Making of Mexican American Aesthetics
Chapter 4: A Mexico-Texan Interlude: Americo Paredes, Border Modernity, and the Demise of Patriarchal Anticolonialism
Chapter 5: Mujeres Fronterizas: Writing Tejana Agency into the Texas Centennial Era
Epilogue: From Centennial to Sesquicentennial
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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