Identity politics of the captivity narrative after 1848
Examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of race relations, and a means of elucidating the US-Mexican War's complex and often contradictory significance in the national imagination.
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxii, 157 pages ; 24 cm
9780803244009, 0803244002
61478645
Mis(s)taken : identity politics of captivity narratives in the Spanish Borderlands
Domestic captives : Mexicanas in post-1848 United States
Embodying the West : lyrics from the U.S.-Mexican war
Masquerade of manifest destiny : women as men and 1846 as 1776
Testifying bodies : citizenship debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy