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Recovering Chicano/a Literary Histories: Historiography beyond Borders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
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Abstract

This article underscores the need to reconstruct Mexican American literary historiography by locating and analyzing pre–Chicano/a movement critical sources. Consideration of how Mexican Americans saw their literature at different junctures in the past will ensure that we do not impose our own aesthetic and political criteria as we reinterpret older texts. I analyze a 1959 literary history of New Mexico and Colorado in order to explore how a recovery of this particular text would intervene in current debates in the field of Chicana/o studies, most prominently the tension between nationalism and regional studies, on the one hand, and transnationalism, on the other. My analysis demonstrates that Mexican Americans and Chicanos/as have shared literary tastes and cultural capital with other Latinas/os and Latin Americans and that consequently Chicano/a literary history should be a discipline that goes beyond borders.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 120 , Issue 3 , May 2005 , pp. 796 - 805
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2005

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