Looking at America from Inside Out
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In spite of the ongoing expansion of U.S. military imperialism, as it continues to station its troops on bases around the world and intervene in numerous foreign wars since the start of the twentieth century, American literature has until now paid little attention to America’s imperialistic presence in a global context. The rare exception seems to be found in minority literary works of multicultural America that expose U.S. military imperialism in very glaring ways in the context of 20th Century U.S. Latina/o Literature. This essay examines Mother Tongue, the 1994 novel by Demetria Martínez, to illustrate the significance of the U.S. presence in the Salvadoran civil war as a manifestation of U.S. military imperialism in Central America and its persistent impacts on the psyches of war survivors. Since Mother Tongue is set amid the conservative political climate of the U.S. during the 1980s and addresses U.S. citizens’ protest against U.S. foreign policy, this essay also examines American activism against U.S. war crimes, which Martínez presents as the other side of America in the novel. In doing so, this study aims to show that American literature can be a powerful channel not only in promoting American awareness of U.S. imperialistic objectives around the world but also to encourage a collective resistance to the privileges of U.S. imperialism.
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In spite of the ongoing expansion of U.S. military imperialism, as it continues to station its troops on bases around the world and intervene in numerous foreign wars since the start of the twentieth century, American literature has until now paid little attention to America’s imperialistic presence in a global context. The rare exception seems to be found in minority literary works of multicultural America that expose U.S. military imperialism in very glaring ways in the context of 20th Century U.S. Latina/o Literature. This essay examines Mother Tongue, the 1994 novel by Demetria Martínez, to illustrate the significance of the U.S. presence in the Salvadoran civil war as a manifestation of U.S. military imperialism in Central America and its persistent impacts on the psyches of war survivors. Since Mother Tongue is set amid the conservative political climate of the U.S. during the 1980s and addresses U.S. citizens’ protest against U.S. foreign policy, this essay also examines American activism against U.S. war crimes, which Martínez presents as the other side of America in the novel. In doing so, this study aims to show that American literature can be a powerful channel not only in promoting American awareness of U.S. imperialistic objectives around the world but also to encourage a collective resistance to the privileges of U.S. imperialism.
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