Postnationalism in chicana/o literature and culture [[electronic resource] /] / Ellie D. Hernandez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778027603321
• Autore: Hernandez Ellie D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-292-79360-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Collana: Chicana matters series
• Disciplina: 810.9/3581
• Soggetti: American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism; Politics and literature - United States; Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity; Nationalism and literature - United States; Group identity - United States; Homosexuality and literature - United States; Mexican American gay people - Intellectual life; Globalization - Social aspects - United States; Gender identity in literature; Mexican-American Border Region In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-227) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Postnationalism : encountering the global -- Idealized pasts : discourses on Chicana postnationalism -- Cultural borderlands : the limits of national citizenship -- Chicana/o fashion codes : the political significance of style -- Performativity in the Chicana/o autobiography -- Denationalizing Chicana/o queer representations.
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that openly celebrates diverse experiences. Charting this transformation, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture looks to the late 1970s, during a resurgence of global culture, as a crucial turning point whose reverberations in twenty-first-century late capitalism have been profound. Arguing for a postnationalism that documents the radical politics and aesthetic processes of the past while ; embracing contemporary cultural and sociopolitical expressions among Chicana/o peoples, Hernández links the multiple forces at play in these interactions. Reconfiguring text-based analysis, she looks at the comparative development of movements within women's rights and LGBTQI activist circles. Incorporating economic influences, this unique trajectory leads to a new conception of border studies as well, rethinking the effects of a restructured masculinity as a symbol of national cultural transformation. Ultimately positing that globalization has enhanced the emergence of new Chicana/o identities, Hernández cultivates important new understandings of borderlands identities and postnationalism itself.