The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and IdentityThe literary archive of the U. S. Mexican War (1846 1848) opens to view the conflicts and relationships across one of the most contested borders in the Americas. Most studies of this literature focus on the war's nineteenth century moment of national expansion. In The Literatures of the U. S. Mexican War, Jaime Javier Rodrguez brings the discussion forward to our own moment by charting a new path into the legacies of a military conflict embedded in