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In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that openly celebrates diverse experiences. Charting this transformation, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture looks to the late 1970s, during a resurgence of global culture, as a crucial turning point whose reverberations in twenty-first-century late capitalism have been profound. Arguing for a postnationalism that documents the radical politics and aesthetic processes of the past while embracing contemporary cultural and sociopolitical expressions among Chicana/o peoples, Hernández links the multiple forces at play in these interactions. Reconfiguring text-based analysis, she looks at the comparative development of movements within women's rights and LGBTQI activist circles. Incorporating economic influences, this unique trajectory leads to a new conception of border studies as well, rethinking the effects of a restructured masculinity as a symbol of national cultural transformation. Ultimately positing that globalization has enhanced the emergence of new Chicana/o identities, Hernández cultivates important new understandings of borderlands identities and postnationalism itself.

American literature --- Politics and literature --- Mexican Americans --- Nationalism and literature --- Group identity --- Homosexuality and literature --- Mexican American gays --- Globalization --- Gender identity in literature. --- Mexican American authors --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic identity. --- Intellectual life. --- Social aspects --- Mexican-American Border Region --- In literature. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Gays, Mexican American --- Gays --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- Mexican American gay people