Forgetting the Alamo and Male Privilege: Settler Colonialism and Gendered Resistance Along the Borderlands.
Settler colonialism in the early- to mid-nineteenth century ushered in social, political, racial, and religious unrest across what we know today as the US/Mexico borderlands. This essay examines this significant period of settler colonialism in Texas through two novels, written 150 years apart: Augu...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 1 - 28 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2022
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