"These twelve pieces explore the meaning of ""Nuestra América""our Americaas José Martí posited in his well-known essay on U.S. expansionism and imperialistic ploys. Scholars from the U.S. and aborad explore the ""contact zones"" that originated from the clash and/or syntheses between the U.S. and Latin America. Divided into four sections, this collection focuses on themes such as ""Contesting the Canon,"" ""Mapping Latino Voices in the United States,"" ""Postcoloniality in Autobiography"" and ""Nationalism in Contact Zones."""
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Contesting the Canon
- Discourse Production and the Expression of Gender Roles in the Writings of María Cristina Mena
- Heroic Boys and Good Neighbors: Cold War Discourse and the Symbolism of Chapultepec in María Cristina
- Mena’s Boy Heroes of Chapultepec
- Squatting in Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Intertextual References and Literary Tactics of Nineteenth- Century U.S. Women Writers
- Part II. Mapping Latino Voices in the United States
- España libre: periódico de exilio español en Nueva York
- ¡No Hay Justicia! The Execution of Simplicio Torres
- Recovering Spanish-Language Education in Alta California: Ecologies, Ideologies and Intertexualities
- Part III. Postcoloniality in Autobiography
- Autobiographical Politics in the Contact Zone Miguel Antonio Otero’s My Life on the Frontier
- The Autobiography of Conversion of Rev. Santiago Tafolla, Sr., Runaway, Soldier and Methodist Minister: a Postcolonial Bildungsroman
- De la experiencia a la enseñanza: Contrastes estructurales y didácticos en El sool de Texas y Macho!
- Part IV. Nationalism in Contact Zones
- The Mexican-American Novel of the Revolution Reading the Immigrant Nationalism of Leonor Villegas de Magnón's The Rebel
- The Return of José Castro: The Baja California Correspondence of Alta California’s Last Commander General
- La figura del sacrificio como expresión nacionalista en las obras Hatueyy La muerte de Plácido
- Contributors
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