Includes bibliographical references.

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 -- Novelizing national discourses : history, romance, and law in The squatter and the don / Jesse Alemán -- Como Dios manda : political messianism in Manuel C. de Baca's Noches tenebrosas en el condado de San Miguel / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry -- Breaking all the rules : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton writes a civil war novel / José F. Aranda, Jr. -- Part II: Women's voices : the construction of ethnic gender identities. Los textos narrativos y su importancia historigráfica : Las memorias de Leonor Villegas de Magnón / Martha Eva Rocha Islas -- Representing Mexico : María Cristina Mena's short fiction in The century magazine, 1913-1916 / Amy Doherty -- Confronting la frontera, identity, and gender : poetry and politics in La crónica and El demócrata fronterizo / Louis Mendoza -- Mediating the desire of the reader in Villegas de Magnón's The rebel / Andrea Tinnemeyer -- Framing the female voice : the Bancroft narratives of Apolinaria Lorenzana, Angustias de la Guerra Ord and Eulalia Pérez / Virginia M. Bouvier --

Part III: Chroniclers, ethnographers, and historians. New approaches to old chroniclers : contemporary critical theories and the Pérez de Villagrá epic / María Herrera-Sobek -- Cantaron la victoria : Spanish literary tradition and the 1680 Pueblo Revolt / Barbara de Marco -- Los Comanches : text, performance, and transculturation in an eighteenth-century New Mexican folk drama / Enrique Lamadrid -- A portrait of the Spanish conquistador in La Florida del Inca / Shannon L. Moore-Ross and José B. Fernández -- El exilio cubano del siglo XIX : la leyenda negra y la figura del indio / Marcela W. Salas -- Negating cultures, saving cultures : Franciscan ethnographic writings in seventeenth-century la Florida / E. Thompson Shields, Jr. -- The Nogales dispute of 1791-1792 : texts and context / Charles A. Weeks -- Part IV: Identity and affirmation : contextualizing U.S. Hispanic literature. Before the diaspora : early Dominican literature in the United States / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- The recovery of Salomón de la Selva's Tropical town : challenges and outcomes / Silvio Sirias -- A man of action : Cirilio Villaverde as trans-American revolutionary writer / Rodrigo Lazo -- From factory to footlights : original Spanish-language cigar workers' theatre in Ybor City and West Tampa, Florida / Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez -- Looking backward, looking forward : Jesús Colón's left literary legacy and the adumbration of a third-world writing / Tim Libretti -- Jesús Colón : relación entra crónica periodista, lenguaje y público / Edwin K. Padilla.

Essays in English and Spanish.

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