Disrupting Savagism - Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation (Paperback)

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, "Disrupting Savagism" 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 neutralized 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 sixteenth-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 racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities, Aldama reveals the unique epistemic logic of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions.
The transcultural perspective of "Disrupting Savagism" will interest scholars of feminist postcolonial processes in the United States, as well as students of Latin American, Native American, and literary studies.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Latin America Otherwise
Release date:	November 2001
First published:	November 2001
Authors:	Arturo J Aldama
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-2748-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-8223-2748-1
Barcode:	9780822327486

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