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Marissa López Orals: Third Field Description and List

Brief description:

For the past 15 or so years American Studies has been leaning towards a more Pan-American perspective which takes into account the United States’ imperial history. Recent attention in the world media towards policy making institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund have added an urgency and legitimacy to this approach and American Studies appears to be moving towards critical paradigms which place the US’s imperial history and its neo-imperial present at center stage. In addition to this emphasis on colonial and postcolonial conditions within the United States, a growing number of scholars have begun to question fundamental categories of analysis such as the nation-state. My third field investigates this critical shift while posing a crucial question to it: what are the implications for the study of Chicana/o literature in discussions of globalization and post-nationalism within American Studies? The concept of nation, both allegorical and material, has always been central to Chicana/o studies, and Chicano scholars and activists have tended to resist the gravitational pull towards Pan-Latino or Pan-Hispanic political movements. With my third field I explore the intersection of Chicana/o political history and current paradigms in American Studies in order to see what sorts of interventions and contributions Chicana/o literature makes in this Pan-American consideration of globalization.

Working List as of May 9, 2003:

Part I: American Literature and Post-Nationalist American Studies:

Section A: What has American Studies Been? 1. Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” 2. VL Parrington, Intro, Main Currents in American Thought (1927) 3. F.O. Matthiessen, Intro, American Renaissance (1941) 4. Henry Nash Smith, Intro, Virgin Land (1950) 5. R.W.B. Lewis, Intro, The American Adam (1955) 6. Perry Miller, “Preface” Errand Into the Wilderness (1956) 7. Leo Marx, Intro, The Machine in the Garden (1964) 8. Richard Slotkin, Intro, Regeneration through Violence 9. Annette Kolodny, Intro, The Lay of the Land 10. Gene Wise, “Paradigm Dramas in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement,” American Quarterly 31.3 (1979)

Section B: What is American Studies Becoming? 11. Carolyn Porter, “What We Know That we Don’t Know: Remapping American Literary Studies,” ALH 6.3 (1994) 12. Revisions of Turner’s Frontier Thesis a. Andrew Cayton and Fredrika Teute, “On the Connection of Frontiers.” Introduction. Contact Points; American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750 – 1830. (1998) b. Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) 13. Américo Paredes, With His Pistol in His Hand (1958) 14. José Saldívar, Dialectics of Our America 15. Walter Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, Border Thinking (2000) 16. John Carlos Rowe, et. al. “Introduction” Post-Nationalist American Studies (2000) 17. Selections from Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism (1993) a. Kaplan, “Left Alone With America: The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture.” Introduction. b. Pease, “New Perspectives on U.S. Culture and Imperialism.” Introduction. c. Myra Jehlen, “Why did the European Cross the Ocean? A Seventeenth-Century Riddle.” d. Priscilla Wald, “Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation” e. Richard Slotkin, “Buffalo Bill’s ‘Wild West’ and the Mythologization of the American Empire” f. Kaplan, “Black and Blue on San Juan Hill” g. José Saldívar, “Américo Paredes and Decolonization” h. Christopher Wilson, “Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico” i. Walter Benn Michaels, “Anti-Imperial Americanism” j. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington, “We Think, Therefore They Are? On Occidentalizing the World”

Part II: Chicano Literature’s Acts of Historical Reference:

This second section traces the relationship between philosophies of history, philosophies of nationalism, and philosophies of reference seeking to understand how historical narrative contributes to nationalist mythology at the level of linguistic reference. I want to consider how shifts to global considerations in American studies might challenge conventional assumptions about how this relationship works. I am curious about the particular intervention Chicana/o literature and history make in considerations of the historicity of nationalism, discussions of American empire, and considerations of globalization in American Studies.

Section A: Theories of Historiography, Reference, and Globalization 1. Kant, “Idea of a Universal History” 2. Herder, “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man” 3. Hegel, from, Philosophy of History 4. Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto 5. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 6. Étienne Balibar k. “Racism and Nationalism” l. “The Nation Form” m. “Vacillation of Ideology,” parts I and II n. from Politics and the Other Scene 7. Jacques Derrida, Limited Inc. (1988) 8. Nationalism: Gellner, Anderson 9. Wilford and Miller, eds. Women, ethnicity, and nationalism: The politics of transition (1998) 10. Robert Blauner, Still the Good News 11. Wallerstein, The World System 12. Mohanty, Literary Theory and the Claims of History (1997) 13. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, from Empire (2000) 14. Jameson and Miyoshi, eds. On Globalization

Section B: Chicano Literature and Scholarship

1. Eusebio Chacon: El hijo de la tempestad; Tras la tormenta la calma: Dos novelitas originales (1829). 2. Miguel Antonio Otero: My Life on the Frontier (1882) 3. Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: The Squatter and the Don (1885) 4. Nina Otero: Old Spain in Our Southwest (1936). 5. Jovita Gonzalez: Caballero (1937) 6. Fray Angelico Chavez: Clothed with the Sun (1939) 7. Paredes: George Washington Gomez 8. Cleofas Jaramillo: Shadows of the Past (1941) 9. Fabiola Cabeza de Vaca: We Fed them Cactus (1953) 10. Reyes Cardenas: Chicano Territory (1957); Survivors of the Chicano Titanic (1981) 11. José Antonio Villareal: Pocho (1959) 12. John Rechy: City of Night (1963); The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez (1986) 13. Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzalez: Yo Soy Joaquin! (1967) 14. Raymond Barrio: The Plum Plum Pickers (1969) 15. José Antonia Villareal: Pocho (1970) 16. Tomas Rivera: . . . y no se lo trago la tierra (1971) 17. Ernesto Galarza: Barrio Boy (1971) 18. : Floricanto en Aztlán (1971), Spik in Glyph? (1981) 19. Ricardo Sanchez: Canto y Grito mi Liberacion (1971) 20. José Montoya: El sol y los de abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems (1972) 21. Luis Valdez: Actos (1971), Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992) 22. : Bless Me, Ultima (1972) 23. Oscar Zeta Acosta: Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973) 24. Ron Arias: The Road to Tamazunchale (1975) 25. Estela Portillo-Trambley: Rain of Scorpions (1975) 26. Rolando Hinojosa: Korean Love Songs from Klail City Death Trip (1978) 27. José Antonio Burciaga: Drink Cultura Refrescante (1978) 28. : Immigrants in Our Own Land (1979) 29. Nash Candelaria: Memories of the Alhambra (1979) 30. Raul Salinas: Un Trip Through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursiones (1980) 31. : Emplumada (1981) 32. Cherrie Moraga: Loving in the War Years (1983), The Last Generation (1993) 33. Arturo Islas: The Rain God (1984) 34. Cecile Pineda: Face (1985) 35. Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) 36. : The Mixquiahuahla Letters (1986), My Father was a Toltec (1988), Sapogonia (1990) 37. Americo Paredes: George Washington Gomez (1990) 38. Dagoberto Gilb: The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña (1994) 39. Helena Viramontes: Under the Feet of Jesus (1996) 40. Norma Cantú: Canicula (1995) 41. : Caramelo (2002) 42. Americo Paredes: With his Pistol in His Hand. (1958) 43. Maria Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes, eds: Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature (1988). 44. Genarro Padilla: My History, Not Yours (1989) 45. Juan Bruce-Novoa: RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature, Theory, and History (1990). 46. Hector Calderon, and Jose David Saldivar, eds. Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology (1991). 47. José Saldívar: The Dialectics of Our America (1991) 48. Ramon Saldívar: Chicano Narrative (1991) 49. Jose Eduardo Limon: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican American Social Poetry (1992) 50. Norma Alarcon, et. al., eds.: Chicana Critical Issues (1993). 51. Ramon Gutierrez, and Genaro Padilla, eds. Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (1993). 52. Maria Herrera-Sobek: The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis (1990), Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest (1993). 53. Rafael Perez-Torres: Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins (1995). 54. Rosaura Sanchez: Telling Identities (1995) 55. Louis Mendoza: Historia (2001) 56. Kirsten Silva Gruesz: Ambassadors of Culutre: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (2002)