Rosaura Sánchez, Beatrice Pita

Spatial and Discursive Violence in the Us Southwest

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the US Southwest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010609
• ISBN-10: 1478010606
• Artikelnr.: 59412754

Autorenporträt

Rosaura Sánchez is Professor Emeritus of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Telling Identities: The Californio Testimonios. Beatrice Pita is Retired Lecturer of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Together they have written Conflicts of Interest: The Letters of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest  1
1. Spatial Violence and Modalities of Colonialism: Enclosure  26
2. Indigenous Spatial Sovereignty and Governmentality: Rights and Wrongs in
Oklahoma  43
3. Enclosures in New Mexico: Land of Disenchantment  92
4. Texas Narratives of Dispossession: When the Land Became Real Estate  148
Conclusion. Spatial Moorings and Dislocation  202
Notes  213
Bibliography  241
Index  253