The tenth volume in the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, this collection of essays reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the project’s efforts to locate, identify, preserve and disseminate the literary contributions of US Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times.
Essays by scholars recalling the beginnings of the project cover a wide range of topics: origins, identity, archival research, institutional politics and pedagogy. From recollections about funding to personal reminiscences, the recovery of Jewish Hispanic heritage and the intellectual project of reframing American history and literature, these articles provide a fascinating look at twenty-five years of recovering the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States.
An additional nineteen scholarly essays speak to specific efforts to recover an extremely diverse Latino literary heritage. Historians and literary critics who research Spanish, English and Sephardic texts examine a broad array of subjects, including colonialism, historical populations, exile and immigration. This far-reaching book is required reading for those studying US Latino history and literature.
Essays by scholars recalling the beginnings of the project cover a wide range of topics: origins, identity, archival research, institutional politics and pedagogy. From recollections about funding to personal reminiscences, the recovery of Jewish Hispanic heritage and the intellectual project of reframing American history and literature, these articles provide a fascinating look at twenty-five years of recovering the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States.
An additional nineteen scholarly essays speak to specific efforts to recover an extremely diverse Latino literary heritage. Historians and literary critics who research Spanish, English and Sephardic texts examine a broad array of subjects, including colonialism, historical populations, exile and immigration. This far-reaching book is required reading for those studying US Latino history and literature.
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface: A. Gabriel Meléndez
- Introduction: Antonia Castañeda and Clara Lomas
- Considering Recovery’s First 25 Years: Reflections and Testimonios
- “Recovering Our Written Legacy: Recounting the Challenge” Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Nicolás Kanellos and Carolina Villarroel
- Recovery Board of Directors: Reflecting and Rethinking America’s Literary Heritage
- Origins
- “Abriendo Brecha: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Origin of the Recovery Program,” Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
- “Reminiscences,” José B. Fernández
- “Comments on the Recovery Program,” Rosaura Sánchez
- “Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage—A Personal Reflection,” Virginia Sánchez-Korrol
- Identities—Hispanic, Latina/o/x, Ladino
- “Archives and Identity: Recovery’s Impact on Latino Identity Formation,” Raúl A. Ramos
- “Inscribing a Maligned People: A Journey with the Recovery Program,” Gerald E. Poyo
- “Not Your Conventional Gringos: Recovering the Sephardic/Latino Matrix,” Aviva Ben-Ur
- “The Politics of Recovery,” Laura Lomas
- Archival Research
- “On the Road to Recovery, Or What It Means to (Finally) Join the Recovery Program,” Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
- “Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage: 25 Years into it,” A. Gabriel Meléndez
- Institutional Politics and Pedagogy
- “Tirando del hilo se construye la historia,” Rose Marie Beebe
- “The Lean Years: Coming Up Short and Then Finding Someone Else’s (Unused) Pay Dirt,” Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez
- “Approaches for Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican-American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms,” Yolanda Padilla
- “A Librarian and Archivist Reflection about the Recovery Program,” Marisol Ramos
- Collection of historical photos
- Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume X
- Part 1: Of Coloniality, Colonialisms and Settler Colonialisms: Languages, Politics, Religion
- “The Long Colonizing Process of California: From Cortés to Portolá,” José Antonio Gurpegui
- “Un grupo documental para la evangelización de los coahuiltecos,” Blanca López de Mariscal
- “La voz de las respuestas silentes: análisis etnohistórico de un texto religioso en la lengua coahuilteca,” Paloma Vargas Montes
- “El México Perdido y Anhelado: The Prose of Settler Colonialism Amidst the Diaspora,” José Angel Hernández
- “La nación intervenida: el concepto de la nación puertorriqueña en las crónicas de Jesús Colón,” Bruno Ríos
- “La nostalgia de la patria / la patria nostálgica: una aproximación a la vida y obra de César G. Torres,” Juan Carlos Rozo Gálvez
- Part 2: Of Historical Populations and Literary Histories: Californios and Neo-Mexicanos
- “Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Recovering a Californio Voice from Mexican California,” Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
- “Imagined Alternatives to Conquest in Aurora Lucero-White Lea’s ‘Kearrney Takes Las Vegas,’” Leigh Johnson
- “A Certifiable Past and the Possible Future of a Borderlands Literary and Cultural Episteme,” A. Gabriel Meléndez
- “Literary Detective Work Reclaims Eusebio Chacón From the Telarañas of History: Exhuming a Forgotten Generation,” Francisco A. Lomelí
- “Navigating a Fine Bilingual Line in Early Twentieth-Century New Mexico: El cantor neomexicano Felipe M. Chacón,” Anna M. Nogar
- “Of Modern Troubadours and Tricksters: The Upside-Down World of José Inés García,” Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
- Part 3. Of Exile to Immigration: Nationalism, Migrations and Transnationalism
- “Del exilio a la inmigración: Cosas de los Estados Unidos de Simón Camacho,” Catalina T. Castillón
- “Recovering Forgotten Voices: Cuban Newspapers in Florida, 1870-1895,” Gerald E. Poyo
- “Before Exile: Unearthing the ‘Golden Age’ of Cuban Theater in Tampa,” Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez
- “In Their Own Words: Recovering the History of the Spanish Immigrant Experience in the United States Through Immigrants’ Writing,” Ana Varela-Lago
- Part 4: Jorge Ainslie Writes Immigration: Methodologic and Analytic Approaches to Literary and Periodical Representation
- “Critical Translation: The Politics and Writings of Jorge Ainslie,” José F. Aranda
- “Sintiendo vergüenza: Intersections of Class, Race, Gender and Colonial Affect-Culture in Jorge Ainslie’s Los Repatriados (1935),” Lorena Gauthereau
- “Recovering the Memory of Revolutionary Activity in the Texas Periodical La Prensa: Jorge Ainslie’s ‘Mis Andanzas en la Revolución Escobarista,’” Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara
- Appendices
- Books Relating to Recovery Research
- List of Grants-in-Aid Awarded
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