{"id":35907,"date":"2014-02-20T07:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35907"},"modified":"2014-02-20T07:40:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:40:50","slug":"identity-politics-of-the-captivity-narrative-after-1848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35907","title":{"rendered":"Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848"},"content":{"rendered":"

Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Nebraska Press<\/a>
\n2006
\n160 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6<\/p>\n

Andrea Tinnemeyer<\/strong><\/a>, English Teacher
\nThe College Prepartory School, Oakland, California<\/em><\/p>\n

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Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of race relations, and a means of elucidating the U.S.\u2013Mexican War\u2019s<\/a> complex and often contradictory significance in the national imagination.<\/p>\n

The captivity narrative, as Tinnemeyer shows, addressed questions arising from the incorporation of residents in the newly annexed territory. This genre transformed its heroine from the quintessential white virgin into the Mexican maiden in order to quell anxieties over miscegenation<\/a>, condone acts furthering Manifest Destiny<\/a>, or otherwise romanticize the land-grabbing nature of the war and of the opportunists who traveled to the Southwest after 1848. Some of these narratives condone and even welcome interracial marriages between Mexican women and Anglo-American men.<\/p>\n

By understanding marriage for love as an expression of free will or as a declaration of independence, texts containing interracial marriages or romanticizing the U.S.\u2013Mexican War could politicize the nuptials and present the Anglo-American husband as a hero and rescuer. This romanticizing of annexation and cross-border marriages tended to feminize Mexico, making the country appear captive and in need of American rescue and influencing the understanding of \u201cforeign\u201d and \u201cdomestic\u201d by relocating geographic and racial boundaries.<\/p>\n

In addition to examining more conventional notions of captivity, Tinnemeyer\u2019s book uses war song lyrics and legal cases to argue that \u201ccaptivity\u201d is a multivalenced term encompassing desire, identity formation, and variable definitions of citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 University of Nebraska Press 2006 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6 Andrea Tinnemeyer, English Teacher The College Prepartory School, Oakland, California Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,1196,8,103,17,20],"tags":[17005,335],"class_list":["post-35907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-andrea-tinnemeyer","tag-university-of-nebraska-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}