{"product_id":"yaqui-indigeneity-ariel-zatarain-tumbaga-9780816539376","title":"Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity","description":"The Yaqui warrior is a persistent trope of the Mexican nation. But using fresh eyes to examine Yoeme indigeneity constructs, appropriations, and efforts at reclamation in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican and Chicana\/o literature provides important and vivid new opportunities for understanding. In \u003ci\u003eYaqui Indigeneity\u003c\/i\u003e, Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga offers an interdisciplinary approach to examining representations of the transborder Yaqui nation as interpreted through the Mexican and Chicana\/o imaginary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tumbaga examines colonial documents and nineteenth-century political literature that produce a Yaqui warrior mystique and reexamines the Mexican Revolution through indigenous culture. He delves into literary depictions of Yaqui battalions by writers like Mart n Luis Guzm n and Carlos Fuentes and concludes that they conceal Yaqui politics and stigmatize Yaqui warriorhood, as well as misrepresent frequently performed deer dances as isolated exotic events. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYaqui Indigeneity\u003c\/i\u003e draws attention to a community of Chicana\/o writers of Yaqui descent: Chicano-Yaqui authors such as Luis Valdez, Alma Luz Villanueva, Miguel M ndez, Alfredo V a Jr., and Michael Nava, who possess a diaspora-based indigenous identity. Their writings rebut prior colonial and Mexican depictions of Yaquis--in particular, V a's \u003ci\u003eLa Maravilla\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies the new literary tradition that looks to indigenous oral tradition, religion, and history to address questions of cultural memory and immigration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using indigenous forms of knowledge, Tumbaga shows the important and growing body of literary work on Yaqui culture and history that demonstrates the historical and contemporary importance of the Yaqui nation in Mexican and Chicana\/o history, politics, and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816539375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816539376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46685613162751,"sku":"9780816539376","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e97e90bf-2801-44d3-8f63-6be36da2dd7b.jpg?v=1741726246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yaqui-indigeneity-ariel-zatarain-tumbaga-9780816539376","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}