Spatial & discursive violence in the US Southwest
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Spatial & discursive violence in the US Southwest
Rosaura Sánchez & Beatrice Pita
Duke University Press, 2021
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Spatial and discursive violence in the US Southwest
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Summary: "Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine the spatial and discursive violence in the Southwest as enacted during the Spanish, Mexican and US colonial periods. The volume begins by examining the establishment of enclosures or acts of land dispossession in the Southwest and foregrounds important historical, generational, ideological and textual differences and linkages while addressing multiple domains, regions and authors. Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest provides a new perspective on colonialist debates within Chicano/a Movements and underscores the varying responses of the disenfranchised to dispossession, conquest and colonization across time, stressing what has been omitted, forgotten, or erased in literature and history"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography: p. [241]-252
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the history of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Sanchez and Pita analyze a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories, and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, showing how Chicano/a works often celebrate an idealized colonial Spanish past as a way to counter stereotypes of Mexican and Indigenous racial and ethnic inferiority. As they demonstrate, these texts often erase the participation of Spanish and Mexican settlers in the dispossession of Indigenous lands. Foregrounding the relationship between literature and settler colonialism, they consider how literary representations of land are manipulated and redefined in ways that point to the changing practices of dispossession. In so doing, Sanchez and Pita prompt critics to reconsider the role of settler colonialism in the deep history of the United States and how spatial and discursive violence are always correlated.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest 1
1. Spatial Violence and Modalities of Colonialism: Enclosure 26
2. Indigenous Spatial Sovereignty and Governmentality: Rights and Wrongs in Oklahoma 43
3. Enclosures in New Mexico: Land of Disenchantment 92
4. Texas Narratives of Dispossession: When the Land Became Real Estate 148
Conclusion. Spatial Moorings and Dislocation 202
Notes 213
Bibliography 241
Index 253
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