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Writing the goodlife Mexican American literature and the environment

Title: Writing the goodlife [electronic resource] : Mexican American literature and the environment / Priscilla Solis Ybarra.
Author: Ybarra, Priscilla Solis.
Publication: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2016]

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Description

1 online resource (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations.

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.

Uniform Title

Writing the goodlife (Online)

Alternative Title

Writing the goodlife (Online)

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: defining Mexican American goodlife writing -- Chapter 1. Epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth century novels -- Chapter 2. The coloniality of being and the land: identity in early twentieth century goodlife writing -- Chapter 3. "La santa tierra": Mexican American writing and transcending possession in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 4. Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction: rejecting alienation from the land -- Chapter 5. Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism: creating joyful community in Cherríe Moraga's millenial writings -- Coda: decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century.

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