04245nam 2200685Ia 450 991082379680332120200520144314.00-292-79284-010.7560/722453(CKB)2560000000015418(SSID)ssj0000422188(PQKBManifestationID)11304976(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422188(PQKBWorkID)10416930(PQKB)10353253(MiAaPQ)EBC3443479(OCoLC)664556713(MdBmJHUP)muse2073(Au-PeEL)EBL3443479(CaPaEBR)ebr10389872(DE-B1597)587127(OCoLC)1286807492(DE-B1597)9780292792845(EXLCZ)99256000000001541820090908d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War narrative, time, and identity /by Jaime Javier Rodriguez1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press2010xiv, 306 p. illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-72245-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.The literary archive of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848) opens to view the conflicts and relationships across one of the most contested borders in the Americas. Most studies of this literature focus on the war's nineteenth-century moment of national expansion. In The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War, Jaime Javier Rodríguez brings the discussion forward to our own moment by charting a new path into the legacies of a military conflict embedded in the cultural cores of both nations. Rodríguez's groundbreaking study moves beyond the terms of Manifest Destiny to ask a fundamental question: How do the war's literary expressions shape contemporary tensions and exchanges among Anglo Americans, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans. By probing the war's traumas, anxieties, and consequences with a fresh attention to narrative, Rodríguez shows us the relevance of the U.S.-Mexican War to our own era of demographic and cultural change. Reading across dime novels, frontline battle accounts, Mexican American writings and a wide range of other popular discourse about the war, Rodríguez reveals how historical awareness itself lies at the center of contemporary cultural fears of a Mexican "invasion," and how the displacements caused by the war set key terms for the ways Mexican Americans in subsequent generations would come to understand their own identities. Further, this is also the first major comparative study that analyzes key Mexican war texts and their impact on Mexico's national identity.American literature1783-1850History and criticismIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literatureMexican Americans in literatureMexican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMexican War, 1846-1848InfluenceMexican War, 1846-1848Literature and the warAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.Mexican Americans in literature.Mexican literatureHistory and criticism.Mexican War, 1846-1848Influence.Mexican War, 1846-1848Literature and the war.810.9/3587362Rodriguez Jaime Javier1599977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823796803321The literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War3922878UNINA