... US-Mexico War periodization critical bibliography violence Georges Bataille ...

... shaped the war’s public meanings. Using critical bibliography, the essay makes several larger theoretical claims. First, the circumlocutions that structured cultural production of US military personnel must define the Mexican War’s place in US historiography. Second, the complex temporalities of writing...

..., the chapter argues that erasures found in texts by officers and soldiers fighting in Mexico shaped the war’s public meanings. Using critical bibliography, the essay makes several larger theoretical claims. First, the circumlocutions that structured cultural production of US military personnel must define...