An edition of Mestizo Nations (2002)
Mestizo Nations
Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature
By Juan E. De Castro
Publish Date
August 2002
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Language
eng
Pages
161
Description:
"In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje - which proposes the creation of a homogeneous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements - he examines a selection of texts that represenet the entire history and regional landscape of Latin American culture in its Western, indigenous, and neo-African traditions from Independence to the present. Through them, he delineates some of the ambiguities and contradictions that have beset this discourse."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: Nationalism in literature, National characteristics, Latin American, in literature, Literature and society, Latin American literature, Mestizaje in literature, History and criticism, Mestiezen, Culturele identiteit, Latino-Américains dans la littérature, Literatur, Nationale identiteit, Littérature et société, Littérature latino-américaine, Mestizisierung, Métissage dans la littérature, Nationalisme dans la littérature, Letterkunde, Histoire et critique, Spaans, Rassenverhoudingen, Geschichte, Latin american literature, history and criticism, National characteristics in literature