Colonial Legacies in Chicana/O Literature and Culture: Looking Through the Kaleidoscope

by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez

Book Overview

Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture exposes the ways in which colonialism is expressed in the literary and cultural production of the U.S. Southwest, a region that has experienced at least two distinct colonial periods since the sixteenth century.

Vanessa Fonseca-Ch vez traces how Spanish colonial texts reflect the motivation for colonial domination. She argues that layers of U.S. colonialism complicate how Chicana/o...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816540071
• ISBN13: 9780816540075
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"