Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
10 - Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
from Part II - The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter maintains that the United States’ westward expansion into the greater southwest dispossessed Mexicans living in the region, creating their sense of deterritorialized alienation—the haunting feeling of not belonging in a place that was once home. Mexican American writers resist such displacement through narratives that express their right to civic equality in the United States and that re-imagine their belonging within the U.S. Narratives of displacement thus map the cultural changes that undergird Mexican American dispossession, including personal victimization and disenfranchisement; structural racism in laws and local authority; and language transition from Spanish to English. However, especially at the turn of the twentieth century, Mexican American cultural production, most notably by women, critique dispossession and disenfranchisement through writings as varied as editorials, political poems, novellas, and novels that reimagine Mexico and Mexicans back into the very places from which they had been dispossessed.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 216 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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