The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas Into History

by Emma Pérez and Emma P?rez

Book Overview

"The Decolonial Imaginary is a smart, challenging book that disrupts a great deal of what we think we know . . . it will certainly be read seriously in Chicano/a studies." --Women's Review of Books

Emma P rez discusses the historical methodology which has created Chicano history and argues that the historical narrative has often omitted gender. She poses a theory which rejects the colonizer's methodological assumptions and examines new tools...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253212839
• ISBN13: 9780253212832
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"