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Telling Identities : The Californio testimonios /

Sánchez offers the first historical and literary analysis of thirty 1870s testimonios from the original Spanish-speaking settlers of Alta California. Telling Identities scrutinizes the role of gender, class, race, language, and ethnicity in group identity formation as it looks into history to help...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sánchez, Rosaura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; 1. Testimonials as Dependent Production; 2. The Mission as Heterotopia; 3. Theoretical Disjunctures and Discourses of Liberalism; 4. Spaces of (Re)Production; 5. Politics of Gender; 6. Protonationalism in Alta California; 7. Constructs of Ethnicity; Notes; Testimonial References; Index.