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The Aztec Palimpsest

Paperback • 1997 • English

The Aztec Palimpsest

By Daniel Cooper Alarcon

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About the book

Mexico is more than a country; it is a concept that is the product of a complex network of discourses as disparate as the rhetoric of Chicano nationalism, English-language literature about Mexico, and Mexican tourist propaganda. The idea of "Mexicanness," says Daniel Cooper Alarcon, "has arisen through a process of erasure and superimposition as these discourses have produced contentious and sometimes contradictory descriptions of their subject." By considering Mexicanness as a palimpsest of the...Show more

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9780816516568

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

The Aztec Palimpsest

Format

Paperback

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