Bibliograph

Writing the goodlife, Mexican American literature and the environment, Priscilla Solis Ybarra

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Writing the goodlife, Mexican American literature and the environment, Priscilla Solis Ybarra

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing the goodlife

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

929545648

Responsibility statement

Priscilla Solis Ybarra

Sub title

Mexican American literature and the environment

Summary

"The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Preface: The making of a Chicana ecocritic -- Introduction: Defining Mexican American goodlife writing -- Epistemological hierarchy and the environment : erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth century novels -- The coloniality of being and the land : identity in early twentieth century goodlife writing -- "La Santa Tierra" : Chicana/o writers transcending possession in the late twentieth century -- Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction : rejecting alienation from the land -- Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism : humility before death in Cherríe Moraga's millenial writings -- Conclusion: Decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century

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Writing the good lifeMexican American literature and the environment

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