{"product_id":"in-the-mean-time-9781496237477","title":"In the Mean Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 draw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A valuable, nuanced postwestern perspective on Spanish\/Mexican\/Anglo settler colonialisms and conceptions of time, history, and citizenship. Meticulously researched and elegantly constructed, this text will be useful for scholars and students interested in transnational American literature, cultural geography of the West, and feminist studies.”—Guadalupe Escobar, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an intellectually rigorous and meticulously researched study of the Chicanx\/Latinx\/Mexican\/American literary tradition.\"—A. I. Estrada, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We may someday discover that the conventional vocabularies that have attended studies of identity, ethnicity, history, memory, and time itself may need to be rethought. Murrah-Mandril's \u003ci\u003eIn the Mean Time\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the beginning of such a path.\"—Javier Rodríguez, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lucid and compelling. . . . Murrah-Mandril’s work will become essential reading for scholars and students of Chicanx and Latinx literature.”—John Alba Cutler, author of \u003ci\u003eEnds of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If it is at all possible to be prescient about the future by way of the past, Murrah-Mandril has written such a book . . . in a series of original, provocative, and generative readings of early Mexican American writers and texts. \u003ci\u003eIn the Mean Time\u003c\/i\u003e should be read for its timely intervention in what it meant in the past, what it means in the present, and what it might mean in the future to be of Mexican descent in the United States.”—José F. Aranda, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIn the Mean Time\u003c\/i\u003e expertly provides fresh and adroit readings of long ignored and often vilified authors and makes the case for their sophisticated engagements with time at the level of both form and theme. In a really beautiful way, Murrah-Mandril encourages a dialogue between past authors and present scholars on the subject of forging new paradigms for studying recovered Chicanx literature.”—Belinda Linn Rincón, author of \u003ci\u003eBodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Mean Time of U.S. Modernity\u003cbr\u003e 1. Temporal Colonization: Getting Railroaded in \u003ci\u003eThe Squatter and the Don\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Progress in the Land of Poco Tiempo: Miguel Antonio Otero’s Political Vision\u003cbr\u003e 3. Specters of Recovery: Temporal Economies of Debt and Inheritance in Adina De Zavala’s \u003ci\u003eHistory and Legends of the Alamo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Modernity and Historical Desire: Differential Time Consciousness in \u003ci\u003eCaballero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Discontinuous Inheritance of Mexican American Literature\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409246200151,"sku":"9781496237477","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496237477.jpg?v=1730506127","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-mean-time-9781496237477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}