The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity

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i n d e x Alamo: in film, 103, 269n36; mythology, 57, 67, 111, 127, 154, 250; villains, 24 Altamirano, Ignacio, 154, 183 Americas: domain of anxiety, xii, 13, 78, 113; Mexican-Americans, 251–252; neurosis, 180; U.S.-American exceptionalism , 129 Anglo-American: comity in South Texas, 6, 215; definition of, 9, 260n18; essentialism , xii, 11, 19; identity mutability in, 108, 139, 208, 234; views of Mexico, 4; villains, 201–204 Anglo-Saxonism: contingent culture, 151–152; definition, 260n18, 268n14; essentialism, 51, 107–108, 114–124, 126, 129, 138; mythology, 85 anxiety: globalization and, 1; Mexican presence, 4; U.S.-Mexican War literature and, x Anzaldúa, Gloria, xi, 250 Armstrong, Frank P.: The Prairie Pathfinder , 88–89 Averill, Charles, 51, 81, 207; The Mexican Ranchero, 29–30, 37, 41, 48; The Secret Service Ship, 37–39, 41, 45, 47–48, 66 Bakhtin, M. M.: Biglow Papers, 134–137; narrative, xi, 7–8, 103, 111, 170 bandits: class, 25; frontier mode, 59; hybridity, 101–103, 260n16; Mexican, 12, 23; renegades, 37; social disturbance , 259n15; stabilizing myths, 24, 77, 85, 89, 94, 105–108; threat, 66, 87, 91–92, 100; U.S.-Mexican War literature, 23–24, 32, 82–83; western mode, 81–104 Barclay, Thomas, 35, 261n33 Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 35 ’Bel of Prairie Eden, 78, 145 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 190, 264n68, 282n17 Biglow Papers, The, 111–140, 154, 157, 175; Anglo-Saxonism, 117–120; compared to Civil Disobedience, 143–157; compared to Emerson’s journals, 147–151; compared to Jack Tier, 144–147; compared to Mexican literature, 157, 175; criticism of Anglo-Saxonism, 122–126; description of, 113–117; linguistic disturbance in, 129–134; Second Series, 268n7 border, U.S.-Mexican: globalization, xi, 10, 139, 214, 231–236; identity, 213,  0 2 The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War 222, 228; militarized, 1, 22, 136; tensions , 20, 89, 94, 105, 216; time, 113, 139; writing, 207–209 Boy Heroes of Chapultepec, 243–245 Buntline, Ned (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), 49, 262n46; The Volunteer, 38, 40 Burns, Ken, xii Caballero: and globalization, 222–223, 225 Candelaria, Nash, 15, 209, 237–242 Captain of the Rifles, The, 86–87, 94, 97–98 Chambers, María Christina Mena, 15, 209, 257n54; Boy Heroes of Chapultepec , 243–245 Chicanismo, 5, 216, 236, 252; discourse, xi, 10, 15, 137, 211–212, 217, 230, 250 Chieftain of Churubusco, The, 58–59, 63– 64, 66–67, 74–75, 89 chivalric novelettes: compared to frontier and western modes, 21; frontline accounts, 26; history in, 48–51; resolving contradiction, 47; women in, 41–45 Civil Disobedience, 140–144 Civil War, 68–69, 77 Clarke, Sarah Jane (pseud. Grace Greenwood): The Volunteer, 48–49 class: feudalism, 263n59; Mexican Americans, 215; war memoir, 32–35 congressional speeches and frontier homologies, 68–70 Cooper, James Fenimore, 31, 151–152; Jack Tier, 111, 121, 144–147; The Prairie , 41–42, 234 Cortina, Juan, 83, 103 Corwin, Thomas, 70 Coulter, Richard, 35 Curtis, Newton M., 64; The Hunted Chief, 64, 89; The Vidette, 31 Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 35 Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 43–47 Delano, Columbus, 61, 69 Dewey, Frederick H., Will-O’-the-Wisp, 88, 97–98 Díaz, Porfirio, 9 Dilworth, Rank, 44 Duganne, A. J. H.: The Peon Prince, 88–89, 98; Putnam Pomfret’s Ward, 88–89, 98 Eimer, Margaret (pseud. Eve Raleigh), 213, 224–225, 286n32 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 13, 111, 118, 152; journal entries, 147–151 feudalism: romance, 263n59, 286n14; South Texas, 220, 228–229, 231; U.S. society, 25, 52, 97 First World War, 104 Flying Artillerist, The, 66, 71–75 Foot, Solomon, 63, 70 French romance, 51–52 frontier: ambiguity, 13; anxiety, 58; compared to chivalric mode, 76–77; compared to western mode, 78; key terms, 21–32, 56–58; political oratory , 26; resolutions, 66–75; time, 57, 70–72, 77–79; U.S.-Mexican War, 27, 55, 74–77; villains, 31, 56–57, 62, 66, 75–76 Fussell, Paul, 7, 10 globalization: anxiety, 10, 228; consciousness , 5; ethnography, 214, 216, 227–228, 230; Mexican American literature, xi, 208, 213–215; Mexican nationalism, 156, 204, 205; Mexico, 165, 204; modernity, 228, 232, 239, 247; mutability, x; paradox, 214, 218–225; South Texas, 215, 227; war, 246–247 González, Jovita, 15, 209; Caballero, 213–237 Greenwood, Grace (Sarah Jane Clarke): The Volunteer, 48–49 Gruesz, Kirsten Silva, x, xi, 47, 250 Index  0  Halyard, Harry: The Chieftain of Churubusco , 58–59...