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Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance

Autor Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 1998
In his books The Great Plains, The Great Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with "savage" Indians and Mexicans. So popular was Webb's vision that it influenced generations of historians and artists in all media and effectively silenced the counter-narratives that Mexican American writers and historians were concurrently producing to claim their standing as "gente decente," people of worth.
These counter-narratives form the subject of Leticia M. Garza-Falcón's study. She explores how prominent writers of Mexican descent-such as Jovita González, Américo Paredes, María Cristina Mena, Fermina Guerra, Beatriz de la Garza, and Helena María Viramontes -have used literature to respond to the dominative history of the United States, which offered retrospective justification for expansionist policies in the Southwest and South Texas. Garza-Falcón shows how these counter-narratives capture a body of knowledge and experience excluded from "official" histories, whose "facts" often emerged more from literary techniques than from objective analysis of historical data.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292728073
ISBN-10: 0292728077
Pagini: 327
Ilustrații: 15 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón has taught at several universities and now works as an independent scholar.

Cuprins

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. History as Narrative
  • 2. Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Plains and The Texas Rangers: The Dissolution of History in Narrative
  • 3. The Historical Fiction of Jovita González: Complex and Competing Class Identities
  • 4. María Cristina Mena's Elite, Fermina Guerras' "Folk": The Struggles of Their Distinct and Converging Worlds
  • 5. Américo Paredes's Narratives of Resistance: Property, Labor, Education, Gender, and Class Relations
  • 6. Media Reportage as "History-in-the-Making": Two Short Stories by Helena Maria Viramontes
  • 7. The Texas History of Beatriz de la Garza's Narratives: Sustaining Women, Hispanic Heroes, and a Sense of Place
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Shannon's Appraisal
  • Appendix B: Biographical Outline of Jovita González's Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

A study of Mexican American writers who provided counternarratives to Walter P. Webb's images of "savage" Mexicans and Indians.