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A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community-these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies, a book bringing together Chicana feminism, cultural geography, and literary theory to analyze an unusual mix of Chicana texts through the concept of space. Beginning with nineteenth-century short stories and essays and concluding with contemporary fiction, this book reveals how Chicana literature offers a valuable theoretics of space.The history of the American Southwest in large part entails the transformation of lived, embodied space into zones of police surveillance, warehouse districts, highway interchanges, and shopping malls-a movement that Chicana writers have contested from its inception. Brady examines this long-standing engagement with space, first in the work of early newspaper essayists and fiction writers who opposed Anglo characterizations of Northern Sonora that were highly detrimental to Mexican Americans, and then in the work of authors who explore border crossing. Through the writing of Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Moraga, Terri de la Pena, Norma Cantu, Monserrat Fontes, Gloria Anzaldua, and others, Brady shows how categories such as race, gender, and sexuality are spatially enacted and created-and made to appear natural and unyielding. In a spatial critique of the war on drugs, she reveals how scale-the process by which space is divided, organized, and categorized-has become a crucial tool in the management and policing of the narcotics economy.

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	15 novembre 2002
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822383864
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Extinct Lands,

Temporal Geographies

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Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations

Series editors: Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University; Irene Silverblatt,

Duke University; Sonia Saldívar-Hull, University of California

at Los Angeles

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Chicana

Literature

and the

Urgency of

Space

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Duke University Press Durham & London

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brady, Mary Pat. Extinct lands, temporal geographies : Chicana literature and the urgency of space / Mary Pat Brady. p. cm. — (Latin America otherwise) Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (cloth : alk. paper) — --- (pbk. : alk. paper) . American literature—Mexican American authors—History and criticism. . American literature—Southwestern States—History and criticism. . American literature—Women authors—History and criticism. . Mexican American women—Intellectual life. . Southwestern States—In literature. . Mexican Americans in literature. . Space and time in literature. . Personal space in literature. . Narration (Rhetoric). I. Title. II. Series. . .  .''—dc 

Frontispiece art: Delilah Montoya’s ‘‘Tijerina Tantrum.’’ Courtesy of the artist.

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Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a critical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to deﬁne ‘‘Latin America’’ while at the same time exploring the broad interplay of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin America, at the cross-roads of competing imperial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geopolitical entity since the nine-teenth century. This series provides a starting point to redeﬁne Latin America as a conﬁguration of political, linguistic, cultural, and eco-nomic intersections that demands a continuous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the ongoing process of global-ization and the relocation of people and cultures that have character-ized Latin America’s experience.Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a forum that confronts established geocultural constructions, that rethinks area studies and the disciplinary bound-aries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and that, correspondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. A train station on the border of Mexico and the United States becomes a police station; areas once held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos become residences or places of commerce; freeway con-struction hollows out a community and changes the Southwest land-scape where the Western frontier and the Southern border once were. These histories of the transformation of space and memories are haunted by the ghost of Spanish colonialism, national conﬂicts be-tween Mexico and the United States, and U.S. imperial expansion toward the South. The construction of space, whose theorization we owe to Henry Lefebvre and followers such as David Harvey and Edward Soja, acquires here a new dimension and in a sense a new theoretical beginning. That theoretical beginning is located in the female body of Chicana literature.

Mary Pat Brady makes an important move in inverting here the relation between text and theories by locating theory in the literary texts themselves. This is not an antitheoretical book. It is a book that changes the ways theories have been commonly understood. Liter-ary texts become theoretical conceptualizations of space. Her close textual reading provides a foundation for theorizing space, memo-ries, and history in the borderlands. In this reconceptualization she shows that theories of space and the body that evade the materiality of writing remain inscribed in the presupposition of white, mascu-line, and heterosexual epistemic principles. She oﬀers all the neces-sary elements to conclude that theoretical constructions and human understanding cannot be detached from the material inscription of the understanding subject. When they are detached from this in-scription, they become tools for epistemic violence and domination. Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographiesalerts us to the theoretical and po-litical dangers of the past and shows us the way toward theoretical and political opportunities in the future.

For Carmelita Spence Whose stories of gardens, borders, and boxcars provided my ﬁrst contrapuntal cartography lessons

For Antonia Ochoa Whose own untold story prompted me to dig deeply into the archives despite my fears

For Mama and Papa Whose love never seems to stop

And especially for Kate and Ana Luisa Whose love makes everything new

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Acknowledgments xi Introduction 

Razing Arizona  Double-Crossing la Frontera Nómada  Intermarginalia: Chicana/a Spatiality and Sexuality in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Terri de la Peña  Sandra Cisneros’s Contrapuntal ‘‘Geography of Scars’’  ‘‘Against the Nostalgia for the Whole and the One’’: Cherríe Moraga, Aztlán, and the Spatiality of Memory  ‘‘War Again, or Somesuch’’: Narrating the Scale and Scope of Narcospatiality  Conclusion: Spelunking through the Interstices 

Notes  Bibliography Index 

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