Forgotten futures, colonized pasts : transnational collaboration in nineteenth-century greater Mexico /
Cara Anne Kinnally.
- Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
A novel and a history "yellowed and tattered with age" -- Imperial republics: Lorenzo de Zavala's travels between civilization and Barbarism -- A proposed intercultural and (neo)colonial coalition: Justo Sierra O'Reilly's Yucatecan borderlands -- A transnational romance: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who would have thought it? -- Between two empires: the black legend and off-whiteness in Eusebio Chacon's New Mexican literary tradition -- Remember(ing) the Alamo: archival ghosts, past and future.
Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. This communion between elites was often based upon Mexican elites' own acceptance and reestablishment of problematic socioeconomic, cultural, and ethno-racial hierarchies that placed them above other groups - the poor, working class, indigenous, or Afro-Mexicans, for example - within their own larger community of Greater Mexico. Using close readings of literary texts, such as novels, diaries, letters, newspapers, political essays, and travel narratives produced by nineteenth-century writers from Greater Mexico, Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts brings to light the forgotten imaginings of how elite Mexicans and Mexican Americans defined themselves and their relationship with Spain, Mexico, the United States, and Anglo America in the nineteenth century. These "lost" discourses --
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Mexican literature--History and criticism.--19th century Mexican American literature (Spanish)--History and criticism. American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism. Literature and transnationalism--Mexican-American Border Region.