Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts : Transnational Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century Greater Mexico

__Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts__ traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. This communion between elites was often based upon Mexican elites’ own acceptance and reestablishment of problematic socioeconomic, cultural, and ethno-racial hierarchies that placed them above other groups—the poor, working class, indigenous, or Afro-Mexicans, for example—within their own larger community of Greater Mexico. Using close readings of literary texts, such as novels, diaries, letters, newspapers, political essays, and travel narratives produced by nineteenth-century writers from Greater Mexico, __Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts__ brings to light the forgotten imaginings of how elite Mexicans and Mexican Americans defined themselves and their relationship with Spain, Mexico, the United States, and Anglo America in the nineteenth century. These “lost” discourses—long ago written out of official national narratives and discarded as unrealized or impossible avenues for identity and nation formation—reveal the rifts, fractures, violence, and internal colonizations that are a foundational, but little recognized, part of the history and culture of Greater Mexico. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. This communion between elites was often based upon Mexican elites' own acceptance and reestablishment of problematic socioeconomic, cultural, and ethno-racial hierarchies that placed them above other groups - the poor, working class, indigenous, or Afro-Mexicans, for example - within their own larger community of Greater Mexico. Using close readings of literary texts, such as novels, diaries, letters, newspapers, political essays, and travel narratives produced by nineteenth-century writers from Greater Mexico, Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts brings to light the forgotten imaginings of how elite Mexicans and Mexican Americans defined themselves and their relationship with Spain, Mexico, the United States, and Anglo America in the nineteenth century. These "lost" discourses -- long ago written out of official national narratives and discarded as unrealized or impossible avenues for identity and nation formation -- reveal the rifts, fractures, violence, and internal colonizations that are a foundational, but little recognized, part of the history and culture of Greater Mexico.--Publisher website Title Page Copyright Contents A Note on Translations, Terminology, and the Limits of Language Introduction: A Novel and a History “Yellowed and Tattered with Age” Chapter 1: Imperial Republics: Lorenzo de Zavala’s Travels between Civilization and Barbarism Chapter 2: A Proposed Intercultural and (Neo)colonial Coalition: Justo Sierra O’Reilly’s Yucatecan Borderlands Chapter 3: A Transnational Romance: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? Chapter 4: Between Two Empires: The Black Legend and Off-Whiteness in Eusebio Chacón’s New Mexican Literary Tradition Conclusion: Remember(ing) the Alamo: Archival Ghosts, Past and Future Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author A Novel And A History Yellowed And Tattered With Age -- Imperial Republics: Lorenzo De Zavala's Travels Between Civilization And Barbarism -- A Proposed Intercultural And (neo)colonial Coalition: Justo Sierra O'reilly's Yucatecan Borderlands -- A Transnational Romance: Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton's Who Would Have Thought It? -- Between Two Empires: The Black Legend And Off-whiteness In Eusebio Chacon's New Mexican Literary Tradition -- Remember(ing) The Alamo. Cara Anne Kinnally. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.