6. The Outernational Origins of Chicano/a Literature: Paredes’s Asian-Pacific Routes and Hinojosa’s Cuban Casa de las Américas Roots

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface Americanity Otherwise ix
4. Acknowledgments xxix
5. 1. Unsettling Race, Coloniality, and Caste in Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, Martínez’s Parrot in the Oven, and Roy’s The God of Small Things 1
6. 2. Migratory Locations: Subaltern Modernity and José Martí’s Trans-American Cultural Criticism 31
7. 3. Looking Awry at the War of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo 57
8. 4. In Search of the ‘‘Mexican Elvis’’: Border Matters, Americanity, and Post-State-centric Thinking 75
9. 5. Making U.S. Democracy Surreal: Political Race, Transmodern Realism, and the Miner’s Canary 90
10. 6. The Outernational Origins of Chicano/a Literature: Paredes’s Asian-Pacific Routes and Hinojosa’s Cuban Casa de las Américas Roots 123
11. 7. Transnationalism Contested: On Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and Caramelo or Puro Cuento 152
12. Appendix: On the Borderlands of U.S. Empire: The Limitations of Geography, Ideology, and Disciplinarity 183
13. Notes 213
14. References 239
15. Index 257