Sánchez / Rosaura Sanchez / Pita Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2129-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sánchez, Rosaura

Rosaura Sanchez, Sanchez

Pita, Beatrice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.