Presented
by the IHC Chicano/Latino/Mexicano Studies Research Focus Group
Monday, October
7 / 4 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences
Building
Francisco
A. Lomelí (Spanish & Portuguese and Chicano Studies)
will discuss his co-edited volume, Nuevomexicano Cultural
Legacy: Forms, Agencies, and Discourse (University of New
Mexico Press, 2002) at 4 P.M. on Monday, October 7 in the McCune
Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building.
Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, copies of Nuevomexicano Cultural
Legacy will be available for purchase and signing at this
event.
Book
Description
As striking
as its beautiful landscapes, New Mexico's culture is also
endlessly complex. The fourteen essays collected here examine
many sides of Nuevomexicano culture: its treatment of the
sacred, its discourses on identity and difference, its historical
and literary legacy from colonial times to the present. Among
the diverse topics considered are the role of Charles Fletcher
Lummis in romanticizing New Mexico; the importance of Spanish-language
newspapers at the turn of the century and their commitment
to the social, educational, and cultural progress of the Spanish-speaking
population of the Southwest; the role of mutual aid societies
as agents of collective action and cultural adaptation and
survival; the cultural and religious importance of captivity
narratives; popular depictions of the Virgin of Guadalupe;
and the history of textile making in north central New Mexico.
A photo essay by renowned documentary photographer Miguel
Gandert explores the blurring of lines between Spanish and
Indian cultures in the Rio Grande Valley.
Working
within and across disciplines, charting relationships between
geography and culture that have informed the state's history,
and placing empirical, philosophical and scholarly materials
in dialogue with regional, historical, and cultural studies,
the contributors to this volume add immeasurably to knowledge
of New Mexico's cultural history.
About
the Editors
Francisco
A. Lomelí is professor of Spanish and Portuguese and
chair of the Department of Chicano Studies at the University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Genaro
M. Padilla is associate professor of English and vice chancellor
for Undergraduate Affairs at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Victor
A. Sorell is professor of art history and associate dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences at Chicago State University.
This event
is cosponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese,
Department of Chicano Studies, and IHC Chicano/Latino/Mexicano
Studies Research Focus Group.
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