{"product_id":"the-places-of-modernity-in-early-mexican-american-literature-1848-1948-9781496229106","title":"The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948","description":"2023\u003ci\u003e Choice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948\u003c\/i\u003e, José F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what has emerged as a canon of earlier pre-1968 Mexican American literature. In order to understand modernity for diverse communities of Mexican Americans, he contends, one must see it as an apprehension, both symbolic and material, of one settler colonial world order giving way to another more powerful colonialist but imperial vision of North America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Letters, folklore, print culture, and literary production demonstrate how a new Anglo-American political imaginary revised and realigned centuries-old discourses on race, gender, class, religion, citizenship, power, and sovereignty. The \"modern,\" Aranda argues, makes itself visible in cultural productions being foisted on a \"conquered people,\" who were themselves beneficiaries of a notion of the modern that began in 1492. For Mexican Americans, modernity is less about any particular angst over global imperial designs or cultures of capitalism and more about becoming the subordinates of a nation-building project that ushers the United States into the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e José F. Aranda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Postwestern Horizons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496229106","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440546746505,"sku":"9781496229106","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_faa52c5e-a369-4947-be96-27a92daa28e4.jpg?v=1716238996","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-places-of-modernity-in-early-mexican-american-literature-1848-1948-9781496229106","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}