What is it about?
This essay examines settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Texas through two novels, written 150 years apart: Augusta Evans’ 1855 novel, Inez: A Tale of the Alamo, and Emma Pérez’s 2009 novel, Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory. Drawing on Richard Flores’s and Marita Sturken’s conceptions of cultural memory, the essay illustrates how the novels challenge colonialist ideologies by critiquing the Catholic Church, the settlement and claiming of the Texas/Mexico borderlands, and the conflicted gender and sexual relations and privileging of heteropatriarchy that reinforce the settler colonial structure.
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Why is it important?
The essay offers news insights on cultural memory by acknowledging the significance of gender as it relates to how histories are remembered and cultural memories are formed.
Perspectives
I hope this essay demonstrates the significant influence that Emma Pérez's writings have had on gender, sexuality and the US/Mexico borderlands.
Karen Roybal
Colorado College
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This page is a summary of: Forgetting the Alamo and Male Privilege: Settler Colonialism and Gendered Resistance Along the Borderlands, Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies, January 2022, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/fro.2022.0012.
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