{"product_id":"disrupting-savagism-arturo-j-aldama-9780822327486","title":"Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana\/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation","description":"Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas\/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have been constructed by others, \u003ci\u003eDisrupting Savagism\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how each group, in turn, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space in which certain negative prevailing discourses are neutralized and rendered ineffective.\u003cbr\u003eArturo J. Aldama begins by presenting a genealogy of the term \"savage,\" looking in particular at the work of American ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan and a sixteenth-century debate between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas. Aldama then turns to more contemporary narratives, examining ethnography, fiction, autobiography, and film to illuminate the historical ideologies and ethnic perspectives that contributed to identity formation over the centuries. These works include anthropologist Manuel Gamio's \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Immigrant: His Life Story, \u003c\/i\u003e Leslie Marmon Silko's \u003ci\u003eCeremony, \u003c\/i\u003e Gloria Anzaldúa's \u003ci\u003eBorderlands\/La Frontera, \u003c\/i\u003e and Miguel Arteta's film \u003ci\u003eStar Maps.\u003c\/i\u003e By using these varied genres to investigate the complex politics of racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities, Aldama reveals the unique epistemic logic of hybrid and mestiza\/o cultural productions.\u003cbr\u003eThe transcultural perspective of \u003ci\u003eDisrupting Savagism\u003c\/i\u003e will interest scholars of feminist postcolonial processes in the United States, as well as students of Latin American, Native American, and literary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arturo J. Aldama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822327481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822327486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/23\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.30h x 5.70w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2002 pg. 1765","brand":"Arturo J. Aldama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926527934719,"sku":"9780822327486","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fbdd642a-4988-4390-a085-73c72c647901.jpg?v=1681083564","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disrupting-savagism-arturo-j-aldama-9780822327486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}