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050 00 $aF1216.5$b.C69 1997
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100 1 $aCooper Alarcón, Daniel,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96095721
245 14 $aThe Aztec palimpsest :$bMexico in the modern imagination /$cDaniel Cooper Alarcón.
260 $aTucson :$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axx, 224 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tChicano Nationalism and Mexicanness.$gCh. 1.$tToward a New Understanding of Aztlan and Chicano Cultural Identity --$gPt. 2.$tEnglish-Language Literature and Mexicanness.$gCh. 2.$tMexico as Infernal Paradise.$gCh. 3.$t"Where Do You Get Your Ideas about Mexico?" --$gPt. 3.$tTourism and Mexicanness.$gCh. 4.$tIf a Tree Falls...Tourism and Mexicanness.
520 $aMexico is more than a country; it is a concept that is the product of a complex network of discourses as disparate as the rhetoric of Chicano nationalism, English-language literature about Mexico, and Mexican tourist propaganda. The idea of "Mexicanness," says Daniel Cooper Alarcon, has arisen through a process of erasure and superimposition as these discourses have produced contentious and sometimes contradictory descriptions of their subject.
520 8 $aBy considering Mexicanness as a palimpsest of these competing yet interwoven narratives, Cooper offers a paradigm through which the construction and representation of cultural identity can be studied.
520 8 $aHe shows how the Chicano myth of Aztlan was constructed upon earlier Mesoamerican myths, discusses representations of Mexico in texts by nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, and analyzes the content of tourist literature, thereby revealing the economic, social, and political interests that drive the production of Mexicanness today.
651 0 $aMexico$xForeign public opinion.
651 0 $aMexico$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084548
651 0 $aMexico$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100321
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101054
650 0 $aMexican Americans$xEthnic identity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084504
650 0 $aTourism$xGovernment policy$zMexico.
650 0 $aPublicity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108869
852 00 $bglx$hF1216.5$i.C69 1997
852 00 $bbar$hF1216.5$i.C69 1997