Janzen Liminal Sovereignty

Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7104-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janzen, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction: They Did Not Come to My Mexico

1. Mennonites, Mormons, and the Registration of Foreigners in the 1930s and 1940s: A Rare Attempt to Promote Integration

2. Whose Land Is It: Mormons, Ejidos, and Agrarian Reform

3. Mennonites and Agrarian Reform: Can Mennonites be Mexican?

4. Mennonites and Mormons in Mexico’s Drug Wars: Criminals and Victims on Screen and in Literature

5. Contact Zones in Stellet Licht [Silent Light] and Las Mujeres Flores/The Flower Women

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Janzen is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina and the author of The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control.