| Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity Contributor(s): Tumbaga, Ariel Zatarain (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816539375 ISBN-13: 9780816539376 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American |
| Dewey: 305.897 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 Yaqui Indigeneity, Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga offers an interdisciplinary approach to examining representations of the transborder Yaqui nation as interpreted through the Mexican and Chicana/o imaginary. 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. Yaqui Indigeneity 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 La Maravilla exemplifies the new literary tradition that looks to indigenous oral tradition, religion, and history to address questions of cultural memory and immigration. 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. |