Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. III

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. III

"This third volume of academic essays addresses the broad topics of “Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels”

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels
    • Es necesario Mirar Bien: Nineteenth-Century Letter Making and Novel Writing in the Life of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. Amelia M. de la Luz Montes
      • “How to Say”: Fashioning Narrative Windows
      • “This Yankie Nation”: Negotiating Gender and Race in Washington
      • “I Shall Write”: Experimenting in Genres, and Expanding the Literary Canon
      • “Los Malos y Falsos Informes”: Fighting Marginalization
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Novelizing National Discourses: History, Romance, and Law in The Squatter and the Don. Jesse alemán
      • I
      • II
      • III
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Como dios manda: Political Messianism in Manuel C. de Baca’s Noches tenebrosas en el condado de San Miguel. Erlinda Gonzales-Berry
      • The Gorras Blancas
      • A Messiah for Stormy Seasons
      • Will the Real Messiah Please Stand Up?
      • Who Profits from Redemption?
      • Fact, Fiction, or Self-Righteousness?
      • Notes
    • Breaking All The Rules: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton Writes a Civil War Novel. José F. Aranda, Jr
      • Notes
  • Part II. Women’s Voices: The Construction of Ethnic Gender Identities
    • Los textos narrativos y su importancia historiográfica: Las memorias de Leonor Villegas de Magnón. Martha Eva Rocha Islas
      • Notas
      • Bibliografía
    • Representing Mexico: María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction in The Century Magazine, 1913-1916. Amy Doherty
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Confronting la Frontera, Identity and Gender: Poetry and Politics in La Crónica and El Demócrata Fronterizo. Louis Mendoza
      • Ramirez’s Poetics and Praxis
      • Conclusion
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Mediating the Desire of the Reader in Villegas de Magnón’s The Rebel. Andrea Tinnemeyer
      • Genre Rupture
      • Lily Long as the Ideal American Reader
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Framing the Female Voice: The Bancroft Narratives of Apolinaria Lorenzana, Angustias de la Guerra Ord, and Eulalia Perez. Virginia M. Bouvier
      • Notes
  • Part III. Chroniclers, Ethnographers, and Historians
    • New Approaches to Old Chroniclers: Contemporary Critical Theories and the Perez de Villagrá Epic. María Herrera-Sobek
      • The Aztlán Myth
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Cantaron la victoria: Spanish Literary Tradition and the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Barbara De Marco
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Los Comanches: Text, Performance, and Transculturation in an Eighteenth-Century New Mexican Folk Drama. Enrique R. Lamadrid
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
        • Primary Sources
        • Interviews
        • Secondary Sources
    • A Portrait of the Spanish Conquistador in La Florida del Inca. Shannon L. Moore-Ross ; José B. Fernández
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • El exilio cubano del siglo XIX: La leyenda negra y la figura del indio. Marcella W. Salas
      • Varela/Sellén: la construcción de una identidad y la formación de una conciencia nacional
      • La leyenda negra y la figura del indio
      • Jicoténcal/Hatuey: alegoría y desespañolización
      • Notas
    • Negating Cultures, Saving Cultures: Franciscan Ethnographic Writings in Seventeenth-Century la Florida. E. Thomson Shields, Jr
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • The Nogales Dispute of 1791-92: Texts and Context. Charles A. Weeks
      • Notes
  • Part IV. Identity and Affirmation: Contextualizing U. S. Hispanic Literature
    • Before the Diaspora: Early Dominican Literature in the United States. Silvio Torres-Saillant
      • I. Cultural Invisibility
      • II. The Literary Productivity of the Diaspora
      • III. The Case for a New Chronology
      • IV. U. S.-Dominican Relations
      • V. Nineteenth-Century Dominican Presence in the United States
      • VI. The Twentieth Century: The Henríquez Ureña Family
      • VII. Dominican Writers in New York through the 1950s
      • VIII. Recovering Early U. S. Dominican Texts
      • Note
      • Works Cited
    • The Recovery of Salomón de la Selva’s Tropical Town: Challenges and Outcomes
      • The World of 1918
      • A Biography
      • Themes
      • Formal Aspects of Tropical Town
      • The Poetic Dialogue with Edna St. Vincent Millay
      • The Poetic Dialogue with Rubén Darío
      • Salomón de la Selva After Tropical Town
      • The Literary Heritage of Tropical Town
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • “A Man of Action”: Cirilo Villaverde as Trans- American Revolutionary Writer. Rodrigo Lazo
      • I. “I Exchanged my Literary Tastes”
      • II. An Attack on “Literary Vanity”
      • III. Here and There: Trans-American Revolutionary Writers
      • Works Cited
      • Notes
    • From Factory to Footlights: Original Spanish-language Cigar Workers’ Theatre in Ybor City and West Tampa, Florida. Kenya C. Dworkin y Mendez
      • Introduction
      • A Brief History
      • The Plays
      • Conclusion
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Jesús Colón’s Left Literary Legacy and the Adumbration of a Third-World Writing. Tim Libretti
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Jesús Colón: Relación entre crónica periodística, lenguaje y público. Edwin K. Padilla
      • Bibliografía
      • Notas
  • Part V. Using Historical, Archival, and Oral Sources
    • Social Identity on the Hispanic Texas Frontier. Gerald E. Poyo
      • Introduction
      • New Spain’s Sistema de Castas
      • Bexar’s Demographic Development
      • Defining Español in Bexar
      • The Workings of Calidad and Status in Bexar
      • The Case of Nacogdoches
      • Conclusion
      • Notes
    • Reading Early Neomexicano Newspapers: Yesterday and Today. Doris Meyer
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
    • Recovering Neo Mexicano Biographical Narrative: Cuarenta años de legislador, the Biography of Casimiro Barela. A. Gabriel Meléndez
      • Nineteenth-Century Mexicano Life-Narratives As Symbolic Biography
      • From Boceto to Biographical Communitas
      • Resurrected Meaning(s)
      • The Barela Brand
      • The Metaphor of the Empty Filing Cabinet: Recovering the Casimiro Barela Biography
      • Works Consulted—Primary Sources
      • Secondary Sources
      • Notes
    • En torno a Joaquín Murrieta: Historia y literatura. Luis Leal
      • I
      • II
      • III
      • IV
      • V
      • Obras Citadas
    • Varela’s Jicoténcal and the Historical Novel
      • Introduction
      • The Novel as Autobiography
      • The Novel as History
      • The Novel as Anthropology
      • Meaning of the Novel
      • Select Bibliography

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