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- Title
The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest.
- Authors
Alemán, Jesse
- Abstract
The article examines the cultural movement in history when Mexico's antiquity becomes the hemispheric history of the United States after its revolution that set it free from England. As the U.S. turned away from England, it turned to another country, Mexico. The U.S. staged its romantic primitivism and established, in the process, an alternative literary and national narrative that put the legacy of the Spanish conquest of Mexico at the core of the historical emergence of the United States.
- Subjects
AMERICAN literature; MEXICAN Revolution, Mexico, 1910-1920; AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; PRIMITIVISM in literature; ROMANTICISM in literature
- Publication
American Literary History, 2006, Vol 18, Issue 3, p406
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/alh/ajl006