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
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
15 - Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
Transnational Dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and Its Diaspora in the United States
from Part III - Negotiating Literary Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
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
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Mariano Azuela’s 1915 novel of the Mexican Revolution, Los de abajo, is considered to be the novel of the Mexican nation. This chapter complicates such orthodoxy by reading the novel through a transnational Chicana/o studies framework that accentuates Azuela’s thematization of dislocation, dispossession, and migration, and relating it to early texts by Mexicans in the United States that engaged the Revolution in similar terms. The chapter then focuses on a small number of exemplary writers to chart the divergent political spectrum represented by their literary output. These writings range from anarchist poetry calling for revolution, to conservative novels that urged Mexican immigrants to return to their wartorn homeland or risk the corruption of U.S. influence, to feminist writings that argued for women’s centrality in the war’s military and political affairs. Taken together, these diverse writings reveal members of the Mexican diaspora to be producers of knowledge, as they elucidated through engagements with the Revolution Greater Mexico’s place of at the center of issues encompassing ethnic, national, and transnational concerns.
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