Andrea Tinnemeyer teaches English, Chicano literature, and nineteenth-century American literature at College Preparatory School in Berkeley, California. She received her PhD from Rice University and was recently an assistant professor at Utah State University.

"The book's great strengths are its close readings of understudied materials pertaining to an understudied topic. . . . Tinnemeyer makes a valuable contribution to the field with perceptive analyses and creative archival work. . . . [She] has brought together an exciting group of texts, admirably parsing them from her readers."—Western American Literature

• 1. Mis(s)taken: Identity Politics of Captivity Narratives in the Spanish Borderlands; 2. Domestic Captives: Mexicanas in Post-1848 United States; 3. Embodying the West: Lyrics from the U.S.-Mexican War; 4. Masquerade of Manifest Destiny: Women as Men and 1846 as 1776; 5. Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy

Andrea Tinnemeyer teaches English, Chicano literature, and nineteenth-century American literature at College Preparatory School in Berkeley, California. She received her PhD from Rice University and was recently an assistant professor at Utah State University.

"The book's great strengths are its close readings of understudied materials pertaining to an understudied topic. . . . Tinnemeyer makes a valuable contribution to the field with perceptive analyses and creative archival work. . . . [She] has brought together an exciting group of texts, admirably parsing them from her readers."—Western American Literature

• 1. Mis(s)taken: Identity Politics of Captivity Narratives in the Spanish Borderlands; 2. Domestic Captives: Mexicanas in Post-1848 United States; 3. Embodying the West: Lyrics from the U.S.-Mexican War; 4. Masquerade of Manifest Destiny: Women as Men and 1846 as 1776; 5. Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy

Andrea Tinnemeyer teaches English, Chicano literature, and nineteenth-century American literature at College Preparatory School in Berkeley, California. She received her PhD from Rice University and was recently an assistant professor at Utah State University.

"The book's great strengths are its close readings of understudied materials pertaining to an understudied topic. . . . Tinnemeyer makes a valuable contribution to the field with perceptive analyses and creative archival work. . . . [She] has brought together an exciting group of texts, admirably parsing them from her readers."—Western American Literature

• 1. Mis(s)taken: Identity Politics of Captivity Narratives in the Spanish Borderlands; 2. Domestic Captives: Mexicanas in Post-1848 United States; 3. Embodying the West: Lyrics from the U.S.-Mexican War; 4. Masquerade of Manifest Destiny: Women as Men and 1846 as 1776; 5. Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy