Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

by Ellie D. Hernández

Overview

In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that openly celebrates diverse experiences. Charting this transformation, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture looks to the late 1970s, during a resurgence of global culture, as a crucial turning point whose reverberations in twenty-first-century late capitalism have been profound.

Arguing for a postnationalism that documents the radical politics and aesthetic processes of the past while embracing contemporary cultural and sociopolitical expressions among Chicana/o peoples, Hernández links the multiple forces at play in these interactions. Reconfiguring text-based analysis, she looks at the comparative development of movements within women's rights and LGBTQI activist circles. Incorporating economic influences, this unique trajectory leads to a new conception of border studies as well, rethinking the effects of a restructured masculinity as a symbol of national cultural transformation. Ultimately positing that globalization has enhanced the emergence of new Chicana/o identities, Hernández cultivates important new understandings of borderlands identities and postnationalism itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292723467
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	05/01/2009
Series:	Chicana Matters
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ellie Hernández is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Postnationalism: Encountering the Global
• Chapter 2. Idealized Pasts: Discourses on Chicana Postnationalism
• Chapter 3. Cultural Borderlands: The Limits of National Citizenship
• Chapter 4. Chicana/o Fashion Codes: The Political Significance of Style
• Chapter 5. Performativity in the Chicana/o Autobiography
• Chapter 6. Denationalizing Chicana/o Queer Representations
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index