The Medicine of Memory A Mexica Clan in California

"People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguìa. In a state where "what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo," no one has "the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happ...

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Hlavní autor: Murguia, Alejandro
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Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Austin University of Texas Press 2010
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Abstract "People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguìa. In a state where "what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo," no one has "the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred." From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been.In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguìa draws on memories-his own and his family's reaching back to the eighteenth century-to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he declares, "This is my California history, my memories, richly subjective and atavistic."
AbstractList "People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguìa. In a state where "what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo," no one has "the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred." From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been.In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguìa draws on memories-his own and his family's reaching back to the eighteenth century-to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he declares, "This is my California history, my memories, richly subjective and atavistic."
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Mexican Americans
Subtitle A Mexica Clan in California
TableOfContents Josefa of Downieville: The Obscure Life and Notable Death of a Chicana in Gold Rush California --
Petroglyph of memory --
The homecoming of an Azteca-mexica clan --
Contents --
Gathering thunder --
Tropi(lo)calidad Macondo in La Mission --
Triptych: Memories of the San Fernando Valley --
Selected bibliography --
Preface: Maize for the Metate --
Acknowledgments
The “good old mission days” never existed --
Frontmatter --
The Marin headlands: A Meditation on Place --
Notes --
Phantoms in the mirror --
Title The Medicine of Memory
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