Writing the goodlife : Mexican American literature and the environment / / Priscilla Solis Ybarra

• Autore: Ybarra Priscilla Solis
• Pubblicazione: Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.986872
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism; Environmentalism in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: defining Mexican American goodlife writing -- Chapter 1. Epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth century novels -- Chapter 2. The coloniality of being and the land: identity in early twentieth century goodlife writing -- Chapter 3. "La santa tierra": Mexican American writing and transcending possession in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 4. Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction: rejecting alienation from the land -- Chapter 5. Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism: creating joyful community in Cherríe Moraga's millenial writings -- Coda: decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing the goodlife
• ISBN: 0-8165-3383-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829182003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II