The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico\'s territory to the United States, deferred full U.
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Read as decolonial narratives, the Mexican American cultural productions examined in this book also offer a new way of understanding Latina/o literary history.. progress to resist domination and situate themselves within the shifting political, economic, and historical present. 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.
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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.
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 In the Mean Time, Murrah-Mandril contends that Mexican American authors challenged modern conceptions of empty, homogenous, linear, and progressive Time to contest U.
S. progress. 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.
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Erin Murrah-Mandril demonstrates that the U.
S. citizenship for Mexican Americans but promised, "in the Mean time," to protect their property and liberty.
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico\'s territory to the United States, deferred full U.
S
