Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300 and index.
Contents
U.S.-Mexican War novelettes and dime novels: cousins, seducers, bandits -- Act one: tales of chivalry -- Act two: encounter on the frontier -- Act Three: fictive facts -- Antinarratives of the U.S.-Mexican War -- Nation and lamentation: the catalysis of Mexicanidad -- Mexican self-consciousness: El monedero and the quest to reform Mexico -- Mexican American visions: grief and liberation in global time-space -- Epilogue: narrative arcs, arrows of time.