Richard R. Flores

Remembering the Alamo (eBook, ePUB)

Memory, Modernity, & the Master Symbol

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the American mythology surrounding the Alamo and its influence on cultural identity, historical memory, and ethnic relations. Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Through a metamorphosis of memory and mythology, the Alamo became a master symbol in Texan and American culture. In Remembering the Alamo, Richard Flores examines how this transformation helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Flores looks at how heritage society members and political leaders sought to define the Alamo, and how their attempts reflected struggles within Texas society over the place and status of Anglos and Mexicans. Flores also explores how Alamo movies and the transformation of Davy Crockett into a hero-martyr have advanced deeply racialized, ambiguous, and even invented understandings of the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780292781962
• Artikelnr.: 63556175

Autorenporträt

Richard R. Flores is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also directs the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface and Acknowledgments
2. Introduction
3. 1. The Texas Modern
4. Part One. The Alamo as Place, 1836-1905
* 2. History, Memory-Place, and Silence: The Public Construction of the
Past
* 3. From San Fernando de BÉxar to the Alamo City: The Political
Unconscious of Plaza Space
* 4. From Private Visions to Public Culture: The Making of the Alamo
5. Part Two. The Alamo as Project, 1890-1960
* 5. Cinematic Images: Frontiers, Nationalism, and the Mexican Question
* 6. Why Does Davy Live? Modernity and Its Heroics
6. Conclusion: The Alamo as Tex(Mex) Master Symbol of Modernity
7. Notes
8. References
9. Index