| Writing Transit: Refiguring National Imaginaries in Chicana/O Narratives Contributor(s): Priewe, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 3825352153 ISBN-13: 9783825352158 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American |
| Series: American Studies - A Monograph |
| Physical Information: 267 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since the early 1970s, a number of Chicana/o writers and artists have interrogated the nation as a regulative idea for cultural identity and social cohesion, and have favored postnational and transnational imaginaries. 'Writing Transit' illustrates how Chicana/o narratives refuse to function as disseminators for a uniform national project. Instead, by representing contact zones between Northern Mexico and Southern California, they create fictional universes in which cultural "heres" and "theres" become increasingly blurred. With its focus on unsettled and unsettling cultural positions "beyond the nation" in Chicana/o literature, film, music and performance art, 'Writing Transit' responds to a need to revise border and resistance paradigms in Literary and Cultural Studies. |