Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, In the Mean Time argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction: The Mean Time of U.S. Modernity
1. Temporal Colonization: Getting Railroaded in The Squatter and the Don
2. Progress in the Land of Poco Tiempo: Miguel Antonio Otero’s Political Vision
3. Specters of Recovery: Temporal Economies of Debt and Inheritance in Adina De Zavala’s History and Legends of the Alamo
4. Modernity and Historical Desire: Differential Time Consciousness in Caballero
Afterword: The Discontinuous Inheritance of Mexican American Literature
Notes
References
Index