{"product_id":"in-the-mean-time-temporal-colonization-and-the-mexican-american-literary-tradition-9781496237477","title":"In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition","description":"\u003cb\u003e2020 \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico's territory to the United States, deferred full U.S. citizenship for Mexican Americans but promised, \"in the mean time,\" to protect their property and liberty. Erin Murrah-Mandril demonstrates that the U.S. 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.S. progress. With \u003ci\u003eIn the Mean Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Murrah-Mandril contends that Mexican American authors challenged modern conceptions of empty, homogeneous, linear, and progressive time to contest U.S. colonization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eIn the Mean Time\u003c\/i\u003e draws on literature, autobiography, political documents, and historical narratives composed between 1870 and 1940 to examine the way U.S. colonization altered time in the borderlands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rather than reinforce the colonial time structure, early Mexican American authors exploited the internal contradictions of Manifest Destiny and U.S. progress to resist domination and situate themselves within the shifting political, economic, and historical present. Read as decolonial narratives, the Mexican American cultural productions examined in this book also offer a new way of understanding Latina\/o literary history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin Murrah-Mandril\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Postwestern Horizons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496237477","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175678402697,"sku":"9781496237477","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7bb6c055-ee15-4925-83b2-3b3754e53433.jpg?v=1768891816","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/in-the-mean-time-temporal-colonization-and-the-mexican-american-literary-tradition-9781496237477","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}