TY - BOOK ID - 91708923 TI - Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture AU - Hernandez, Ellie D. AU - Project Muse PY - 2009 SN - 0292719078 029279360X PB - University of Texas Press DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Politics and literature KW - Mexican Americans KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Group identity KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - Mexican American gays KW - Globalization KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Mexican American authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Ethnic identity. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Social aspects KW - Mexican-American Border Region KW - In literature. KW - Global cities KW - Globalisation KW - Internationalization KW - International relations KW - Anti-globalization movement KW - Gays, Mexican American KW - Gays KW - Literature and nationalism KW - Literature KW - Literature and politics KW - Political aspects KW - Mexican American gay people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91708923 AB - 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. ER -