2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico’s
territory to the United States, deferred full U.S. citizenship for
Mexican Americans but promised, “in the mean time,” to protect
their property and liberty. Erin Murrah-Mandril demonstrates that
the U.S. government deployed a colonization of time in the
Southwest to insure political and economic underdevelopment in the
region and to justify excluding Mexican Americans from narratives
of U.S. progress. With In the Mean Time, Murrah-Mandril contends
that Mexican American authors challenged modern conceptions of
empty, homogeneous, linear, and progressive time to contest U.S.
colonization. Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial
theories, Murrah-Mandril argues that time, like space, is a
socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the
Southwest. In the Mean Time draws on literature, autobiography,
political documents, and historical narratives composed between
1870 and 1940 to examine the way U.S. colonization altered time in
the borderlands. Rather than reinforce the colonial time structure,
early Mexican American authors exploited the internal
contradictions of Manifest Destiny and U.S. progress to resist
domination and situate themselves within the shifting political,
economic, and historical present. Read as decolonial narratives,
the Mexican American cultural productions examined in this book
also offer a new way of understanding Latina/o literary history.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Postwestern Horizons |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Erin Murrah-Mandril
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
186 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4962-3747-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4962-3747-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781496237477 |
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