Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage

by ARANDA JOSE (ED)

• ISBN13: 9781558853614
• ISBN10: 1558853618
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Arte Publico Pr

Summary

This historic fourth volume of articles represents the finished, re-worked product of the biennial conferences of recovery, providing theoretical and practical approaches, and critical studies on specific texts. Jose Aranda and Silvio Torres-Saillant's introduction conceptualizes and unifies a broad historical swath that encompasses the Spanish and English-language expression of Hispanic natives, immigrants and exiles from the colonial period to 1960.

Author Biography

Jose F. Aranda, Jr. is a professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he lives with his wife and children Silvio Torres-Saillant, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program at Syracuse University, is the founder and former director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at the City College of New York

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(11)
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Part I Textuality and Social Context
¿Conquista o compra? Dos interpretaciones del Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo	12	(6)
Luis Leal
Cronica de una guerra anunciada: A Critical Report about the US Press in the Spanish American War (1898)	18	(13)
Alfredo A. Fernandez
The Rough Ride through Empire: ``Los Comanches'' after 1898	31	(19)
Curtis Marez
Una flor en la sombra: A Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Virginia Pena de Bordas	50	(9)
Daisy Cocco De Filippis
Remapping the Archive: Recovered Literature and the Deterritorialization of the Canon	59	(21)
Thomas J. Kinney
Part II History, Culture, and the Literary
Anonimo No More: Toward a Transnational Theory of Nineteenth-century Poetic Practice	80	(16)
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
South by Southwest: Land and Community in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don and Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's Historical and Personal Memoirs Relating to Alta California	96	(37)
Vincent Perez
Alberto O'Farrill y Jesus Colon: Dos cronistas en Nueva York	133	(12)
Alejandra Balestra
El aspecto carnavalesco en Las aventuras de Don Chipote, o Cuando los pericos mamen	145	(9)
Gabriela Baeza Ventura
Part III Folk Traditions and Community Identities
La indita de San Luis Gonzaga: War with Spain, Faith, and Ethnic Relations in the Evolution of a New Mexican Religious Ballad	154	(18)
Enrique R. Lamadrid
Pastoras and Malinches: Women in a Traditional Folk Drama of Laredo, Texas	172	(12)
Norma E. Cantu
Jovita Gonzalez y su obra folclorico-literaria: Reconstruccion de la historia cultural mexico-americana	184	(17)
Sergio Reyna
Life and Death along the Waterways of South Louisiana: Isleno Oral Narratives and the Hurricane of 1915	201	(13)
Jeanne L. Gillespie
Part IV Writing Modernity
Fighting on Two Fronts: Jose de la Luz Saenz and the Language of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement	214	(26)
Emilio Zamora
Inscribing Mexican-American Modernism in Americo Paredes's George Washington Gomez	240	(24)
Christopher Schedler
Terms of Engagement: Nation or Patriarchy in Jovita Gonzalez's and Eve Raleigh's Caballero	264	(13)
John M. Gonzalez
Auto/Ethnography and the Politics of Recovery: Narrative Anxiety in the Borderlands of Culture	277
Sonja Z. Perez