Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture

Violent Borders and Gender Orders

AvJoshua D. Martin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Joshua D. Martin explores how four novels set in the nineteenth-century shortly after the creation of the modern-day US-Mexico border reveal a cultural continuum of masculinized violence and cultural grievances that characterize contemporary political culture. Written by Mexican, Mexican-American, Tejana, and US writers, these novels configure Anglo male characters as builders and defenders of their communities or the republic, exploring how these roles intersect with broader imperial interests. Different iterations of violence—interpersonal, economic, and epistemic—are used to create and maintain power hierarchies against characters who stand at the periphery of this imagined community. Nevertheless, the borderlands emerge as a space for decolonial alternatives, where the power of imperial actors invites resistance and subversion, and where counterhegemonic strategies are envisioned and realized. Martin concludes by exploring the salience of this continuum in US political culture, identifying the border both as a stage for the performance of aggressive masculinity and cultural antipathies, as well as a space where American identity is contested, deconstructed, and continually reimagined.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-30
Mått:158 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666966442

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Joshua D. Martin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tennessee Tech University.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction1. Negotiating the Nation: Caballero: A Historical Novel (1930-1940s, published 1996) by Jovita González and Eve Raleigh2. Manifesting Destiny through Imperial Grotesqueries: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985)3. Resisting the Colonial Imperative: Texas: La Gran Ladronería en el Lejano Norte (2013) by Carmen Boullosa4. Between Visions and Invasions: Reyna Grande’s A Ballad of Love and Glory (2022)5. A Continuum of Coloniality: Masculinity, Violence, and the Border in the Trump EraAfterwordBibliography

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