The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948

Named a 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 , José F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what has emerged as a canon of earlier pre-1968 Mexican American literature. In order to understand modernity for diverse communities of Mexican Americans, he contends, one must see it as an apprehension,