Overview
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—long ago written out of official national narratives and discarded as unrealized or impossible avenues for identity and nation formation—reveal the rifts, fractures, violence, and internal colonizations that are a foundational, but little recognized, part of the history and culture of Greater Mexico. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Full Product Details
Author: Cara Anne Kinnally
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.481kg
ISBN: 9781684481231
ISBN 10: 1684481236
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 17 May 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Excavates shards of an alternative U.S.-Mexico relationship. -- California History
"""Excavates shards of an alternative U.S.-Mexico relationship."" * California History * ""[An] intelligent reading...Kinnally does us a great service in dismantling a static Mexicano identity, inevitably rooted in antagonism and resistance. By further excavating the “forgotten futures” that she has brought to light, we will surely uncover some unexpected, stimulating pasts."" * Hispanic American Historical Review * ""Excavates shards of an alternative U.S.-Mexico relationship."" * California History * ""[An] intelligent reading...Kinnally does us a great service in dismantling a static Mexicano identity, inevitably rooted in antagonism and resistance. By further excavating the “forgotten futures” that she has brought to light, we will surely uncover some unexpected, stimulating pasts."" * Hispanic American Historical Review *"
"""[An] intelligent reading...Kinnally does us a great service in dismantling a static Mexicano identity, inevitably rooted in antagonism and resistance. By further excavating the ""forgotten futures"" that she has brought to light, we will surely uncover some unexpected, stimulating pasts.""-- ""Hispanic American Historical Review"" ""Excavates shards of an alternative U.S.-Mexico relationship.""-- ""California History"""
Author Information
CARA A. KINNALLY is an assistant professor of Spanish at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
