Maritza E Cárdenas

Constituting Central American-Americans

Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on Central American in the US. This volume is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured US Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges how we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 197mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592831
• ISBN-10: 0813592836
• Artikelnr.: 50758312

Autorenporträt

MARITZA E. CÁRDENAS is an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction          
Part I: The Isthmus Imaginary: La Patria Grande Centroaméricana      
1. Remembering La Patria Grande: Locating the Nation in Central American
History    
2. Constructing the Central American National Imaginary    
Part II: The US Diaspora: Little Central America     
3. Performing Centralamericanismo: Heterotopias and Transnational
Identities at the COFECA Parade 
4. Subjects in Passing: Central American-Americans, Latinidad, and the
Politics of Dislocation     
Epilogue: La Bestia and Beyond: Migration and the Politics of Mourning     
Acknowledgments 
Notes
Bibliography    
Index