Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment

Synopsis

The Book Looks To Long-established Traditions Of Environmentalist Thought Alive In Mexican American Literary History Over The Last 150 Years--provided By Publisher. Introduction: Defining Mexican American Goodlife Writing -- Chapter 1. Epistemological Hierarchy And The Environment: Erasure Of Mexican American Knowledge In Three Nineteenth-century Novels -- Chapter 2. The Coloniality Of Being And The Land: Identity In Early Twentieth-century Goodlife Writing -- Chapter 3. La Santa Tierra: Chicana/o Writers Transcending Possession In The Late Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. Active Subjectivity In Migrant Farm Worker Fiction: Rejecting Alienation From The Land -- Chapter 5. Ecology And Chicana/o Cultural Nationalism: Humility Before Death In Cherríe Moraga's Millennial Writings -- Conclusion: Decolonized Environmentalisms For The Twenty-first Century. Priscilla Solis Ybarra. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [197]-209) And Index.