Description: Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.
Brief description: Rebecca Janzen is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control and Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"Despite the presence of Mennonites and Mormons in Mexico for almost a century, relatively little scholarly attention has been directed to these groups and Janzen's work begins to fill a critical historiographic gap." - Journal of Mennonite Studies
"Janzen has mined a rich and diverse collection of material ... Students and scholars of Mexico and the US-Mexico borderlands should find this book engaging and enlightening." - Mennonite Quarterly Review
"This subject matter has never been studied in this fashion before, nor with such theoretical sophistication. Not only is the book compelling, but it's also illuminating." - Pedro A. Palou, Tufts University