Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage

by Gutierrez, Ramon A.; Sanchez Korrol, Virginia; Herrera-Sobek, Maria; Padilla, Genaro M.

• ISBN13: 9781558852518
• ISBN10: 1558852514
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Arte Publico Pr

Summary

This third volume of academic essays on recovering the Hispanic literary heritage of the United States features 27 articles by leading scholars. It addresses the broad topics of "Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels; " "Women's Voices: The Construction of Ethnic Gender Identities; " "Chroniclers, Ethnographers, and Historians; " "Identity and Affirmation: Contextualizing U.S. Hispanic Literature; " and "Using Historical, Archival, and Oral Sources." Editors Maria Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sanchez Korrol also contribute a unifying introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(15)
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Virginia Sanchez Korrol
Part I Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels
Es Necesario Mirar Bien: Nineteenth-Century Letter Making and Novel writing in the Life of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton	16	(22)
Amelia M. de la Luz Montes
Novelizing National Discourses: History, Romance, and Law in The Squatter and the Don	38	(12)
Jesse Aleman
Como Dios Manda: Political Messianism in Manuel C. De Baca's Noches tenebrosas en el condado de San Miguel	50	(11)
Erlinda Gonzales-Berry
Breaking All the Rules: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton Writes a Civil War Novel	61	(15)
Jose F. Aranda, Jr.
Part II Women's Voices: The Construction of Ethnic Gender Identities
Los textos narrativos y su importancia historiografica: Las memorias de Leonor Villegas de Magnon	76	(16)
Martha Eva Rocha Islas
Representing Mexico: Mari Cristina Mena's Short Fiction in The Century Magazine, 1913-1916	92	(11)
Amy Doherty
Confronting la Frontera, Identity, and Gender: Poetry and Politics in La Cronica and EI Democrata Fronterizo	103	(21)
Louis Mendoza
Mediating the Desire of the Reader in Villegas de Magnon's The Rebel	124	(14)
Andrea Tinnemeyer
Framing the Female Voice: The Bancroft Narratives of Apolinaria Lorenzana, Augustias de la Guerra Ord and Eulalia Perez	138	(16)
Virginia M. Bouvier
Part III Chroniclers, Ethnographers, and Historians
New Approaches to Old Chroniclers: Contemporary Critical Theories and the Perez de Villagre Epic	154	(9)
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Cantaron la victoria: Spanish Literary Tradition and the 1680 Pueblo Revolt	163	(10)
Barbara De Marco
Los Comanches: Text, Performance, and Transculturation in an Eighteenth Century New Mexican Folk Drama	173	(16)
Enrique Lamadrid
A Portrait of the Spanish Conquistador in La Florida del Inca	189	(14)
Shannon L. Moore-Ross
Jose B. Fernandez
El exilio cubano del siglo XIX: La leyenda negra y la figura del indio	203	(15)
Marcela W. Salas
Negating Cultures, Saving Cultures: Franciscan Ethnographic Writings in Seventeenth-Century la Florida	218	(16)
E. Thomson Shields, Jr.
The Nogales Dispute of 1791-92: Texts and Context	234	(16)
Charles A. Weeks
Part IV Identity and Affirmation: Contextualizing U. S. Hispanic Literature
Before the Diaspora: Early Dominican Literature in the United States	250	(18)
Silvio Torres-Saillant
The Recovery of Salomon de la Selva's Tropical Town: Challenges and Outcomes	268	(47)
Silvio Sirias
``A Man of Action'': Cirilo Villaverde as Trans-American Revolutionary Writer	315	(17)
Rodrigo Lazo
From Factory to Footlights: Original Spanish-Language Cigar Workers' Theatre in Ybor City and West Tampa, Florida	332	(19)
Kenya C. Dworkin y Mendez
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Jesus Colon's Left Literary Legacy and the Adumbration of a Third-World Writing	351	(20)
Tim Libretti
Jesus Colon: Relacion entre cronica periodista, lenguaje y publico	371	(13)
Edwin K. Padilla
Part V Using Historical, Archival, and Oral sources
Social Identity on the Hispanic Texas Frontier	384	(18)
Gerald E. Poyo
Reading Early Neomexicano Newspapers: Yesterday and Today	402	(10)
Doris Meyer
Recovering Neomexicano Biographical Narrative: Cuarenta anos de legislador, the Biography of Casimiro Barela	412	(28)
A. Gabriel Melendez
En torno a Joaquin Murrieta: Historia y literatura	440	(10)
Luis Leal
Varela's Jicotencal and the Historical Novel	450
Rodolfo Cortina