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