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Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/0, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation (Latin America Otherwise)
Arturo J. Aldama
Library Binding. Duke University Press 2001-09.
ISBN 9780822327516
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Förlagets beskrivning
Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize,
pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican
immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While
postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these
ethnicities have been constructed by others, this analysis reveals how each
group, in turn, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and
textual space in which certain negative prevailing discourses are neutralised
and rendered ineffective. Arturo J. Aldama begins by presenting a genealogy of the term "savage",
looking in particular at the work of American ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan
and a 16th-century debate between Juan Gines de Sepulveda and Bartolome de las
Casas. Aldama then turns to more contemporary narratives, examining
ethnography, fiction, autobiography and film to illuminate the historical
ideologies and ethnic perspectives that contributed to identity formation over
the centuries. These works include anthropologist Manuel Gamio's "The Mexican
Immigrant: His Life Story", Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony", Gloria Anzaldua's
"Borderlands/La Frontera", and Miguel Arteta's film "Star Maps". By using these
varied genres to investigate the complex politics of racialised, subaltern,
feminist and diasporic identities, Aldama reveals the unique epistemic logic of
hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. An examination of the disruption of the boundaries of class, gender, race,
ethnicity and sexuality in Chicanos, Mexicans and Native Americans. It explores
the work of American ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan as well as contemporary
narratives including fiction, film and autobiography.
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