In the Mean Time - Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Erin Murrah-Mandril is an associate professor of English and a core faculty member for the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.     Klappentext Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, In the Mean Time argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. Zusammenfassung Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, In the Mean Time argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: The Mean Time of U.S. Modernity 1. Temporal Colonization: Getting Railroaded in The Squatter and the Don 2. Progress in the Land of Poco Tiempo: Miguel Antonio Otero’s Political Vision 3. Specters of Recovery: Temporal Economies of Debt and Inheritance in Adina De Zavala’s History and Legends of the Alamo 4. Modernity and Historical Desire: Differential Time Consciousness in Caballero Afterword: The Discontinuous Inheritance of Mexican American Literature Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Erin Murrah-Mandril
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781496211828
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1182-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Postwestern Horizons
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American