9781439910696

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Published 2014.

Printed in the United States of America.

The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.

A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2020. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

Part One

The Body Politic of Aztlán

Part Two Immobilizing the Border

Part Three Beyond Citizenship.

Accessibility and Nationalism: An Introduction

Enabling Aztlán: Arturo Islas Jr. and Chicano Cultural Nationalism

"My Country Was Not Like That": Cherríe Moraga, Felicia Luna Lemus, and National Failure

"So Much Life in the Still Waters": Alex Espinoza and the Ideology of Ability in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

No Nation for Old Men? Racialized Aging and Border-Crossing Narratives by Guillermo Arriaga, Tommy Lee Jones, and Oscar Casares

Overcoming the Nation: Ana Castillo, Cecile Pineda, and the Stakes of Disability Identity.

American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.

Nationalism and literature > United States.

Nationalism and literature > Mexico.