Description
Book SynopsisHow the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Trade Review"Drawing on a broad range of theorists in various fields (geography, social history, semiotics, cultural studies, and anthropology), Flores provides a compelling and quite forceful analysis of various historically produced forms of documenting, recalling, and interpreting the Alamo." Olga Najera-Ramirez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Texas Modern
- Part One. The Alamo as Place, 1836-1905
- 2. History, Memory-Place, and Silence: The Public Construction of the Past
- 3. From San Fernando de Béxar to the Alamo City: The Political Unconscious of Plaza Space
- 4. From Private Visions to Public Culture: The Making of the Alamo
- Part Two. The Alamo as Project, 1890-1960
- 5. Cinematic Images: Frontiers, Nationalism, and the Mexican Question
- 6. Why Does Davy Live? Modernity and Its Heroics
- Conclusion: The Alamo as Tex(Mex) Master Symbol of Modernity
- Notes
- References
- Index
