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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791151203321

Autore

Miner Dylan A. T. <1976->

Titolo

Creating Aztlán : Chicano art, Indigenous sovereignty, and lowriding across Turtle Island / / Dylan A.T. Miner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9856-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

First peoples: new directions in indigenous studies

Disciplina

704.03/97

Soggetti

Mexican American art

Indian art

Aztlán in art

Colonization in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. Indigenizing""; ""Part I. Tlilli: Theorizing Aztlán""; ""Chapter 1. Remembering: Utopian Migrations through Aztlán""; ""Chapter 2. Naming: Aztlán as Emergence Place""; ""Chapter 3. Claiming: Claiming Art, Reclaiming Space""; ""Part II. Tlapalli: Visualizing Aztlán""; ""Chapter 4. Reframing: Aztlán and La Otra Frontera""; ""Chapter 5. Creating: Creating Aztlán, Finding Nepantla""; ""Chapter 6. Revitalizing: Aztlán as Native Land""; ""Postscript. Returning: Jack Forbes, Mestizaje, and Aztlán""; ""Notes""

""Works Cited""""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

"Creating Aztlán interrogates the important role of Aztlán in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being, author Dylan A. T. Miner (Metis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, engaging pre-colonial indigeneities, alongside colonial, modern, and contemporary Xicano responses to colonization"--