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The literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War : narrative, time, and identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rodríguez, Jaime Javier
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
Mexican literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Literature and the war.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Influence.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • U.S.-Mexican War novelettes and dime novels: cousins, seducers, bandits
  • Act one: tales of chivalry
  • Act two: encounter on the frontier
  • Act Three: fictive facts
  • Antinarratives of the U.S.-Mexican War
  • Nation and lamentation: the catalysis of Mexicanidad
  • Mexican self-consciousness: El monedero and the quest to reform Mexico
  • Mexican American visions: grief and liberation in global time-space
  • Epilogue: narrative arcs, arrows of time.