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- catalog abstract ""Mexico 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." "By 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. He 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10245869.
- catalog coverage "Mexico Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Mexico Foreign public opinion.".
- catalog coverage "Mexico In literature.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""Mexico 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." "By 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. He 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Toward a new understanding of Aztlán and Chicano cultural identity -- Mexico as infernal paradise -- "Where do you get your ideas about Mexico?" -- "If a tree falls ... tourism and Mexicanness.".
- catalog extent "xx, 224 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Aztec palimpsest.".
- catalog identifier "0816516553 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0816516561 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Aztec palimpsest.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tucson : University of Arizona Press,".
- catalog relation "Aztec palimpsest.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Foreign public opinion.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico.".
- catalog subject "972 21".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Mexican American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "F1216.5 .C69 1997".
- catalog subject "Mexican Americans Ethnic identity.".
- catalog subject "Mexican Americans Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Mexican Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "Publicity.".
- catalog subject "Tourism Government policy Mexico.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Toward a new understanding of Aztlán and Chicano cultural identity -- Mexico as infernal paradise -- "Where do you get your ideas about Mexico?" -- "If a tree falls ... tourism and Mexicanness.".
- catalog title "The Aztec palimpsest : Mexico in the modern imagination / Daniel Cooper Alarcón.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".