Women and revolution: Race, violence, and the family romance literature of the Southwest

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dc.contributor.advisorAranda, Jose F., Jr.en_US
dc.creatorTinnemeyer, Andrea Jillen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:30:46Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:30:46Zen_US
dc.date.issued2001en_US
dc.description.abstractAs a significant act of U.S. imperialism, the Mexican War doubled the territory, erected an international border between the two nations, and significantly complicated nineteenth- and early twentieth-century notions of race and gender relations. The Southwest territory, old Spanish borderlands, was the site of the first foreign war for the United States and it witnessed the most nationally-informing debates regarding the Indian question, the woman question, and how citizenship could be imagined and transformed in the age of Manifest Destiny. This dissertation interrogates the mimetic link between nation and the domestic through a reconfiguration of the republican family romance and its monomaniacal preoccupation with gatekeeping whiteness as the sole signifier of political privilege and power. I examine Manifest Destiny in the context of U.S./Mexico relations framed by the Mexican War (1846--8) and the Mexican Revolution (1910). I look specifically at how Mexican and Anglo-American women in the Southwest forge relationships between and among familial, cultural, and national spheres. Chapter one examines the role of Enlightenment ideology and the captivity narrative in post-Mexican War interracial marriages. Chapter two probes the legal and racial consequences of Manifest Destiny expressed in interracial adoption plots. The third chapter investigates female travel narratives in the Southwest. Women soldiers and spies during the Mexican War, Civil War, and Mexican Revolution (1910) comprise the fourth chapter. The final chapter looks at women's fight for suffrage during the Mexican Revolution. Among the authors and historical figures featured in this study are recovered authors Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Jovita Gonzalez, and Maria Cristina Mena. Also featured are the personal narratives of Eliza Allen, Loreta Janeta Velazquez and the newspaper articles of Jane McManus Storms (Cora Montgomery).en_US
dc.format.extent209 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ENGL. 2001 TINNEMEYERen_US
dc.identifier.citationTinnemeyer, Andrea Jill. "Women and revolution: Race, violence, and the family romance literature of the Southwest." (2001) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18037">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18037</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/18037en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectWomen's studiesen_US
dc.subjectAmerican literatureen_US
dc.titleWomen and revolution: Race, violence, and the family romance literature of the Southwesten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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