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War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Ariana E. Vigil
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Description for War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
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War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—from support for anti-imperial war, as seen in Alejandro Murguia's Southern Front, to the disavowal of all war articulated in works such as Demetria Martinez’s Mother Tongue and Camilo Mejia’s Road from Ar Ramadi. With a ... Read more
War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—from support for anti-imperial war, as seen in Alejandro Murguia's Southern Front, to the disavowal of all war articulated in works such as Demetria Martinez’s Mother Tongue and Camilo Mejia’s Road from Ar Ramadi. With a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813569338
SKU
V9780813569338
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About Ariana E. Vigil
ARIANA E. VIGIL is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Reviews for War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
"Bravo! In War Echoes we finally see an honest and courageous account of the productive tensions and uneasy alliances among U.S. Latina/os as they engage the problem of U.S. military intervention in Central America and the Middle East."
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez
author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries
"War Echoes is an innovative investigation ... Read more
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez
author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries
"War Echoes is an innovative investigation ... Read more