Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage VII / edited by Gerald E. Poyo and Tomá s Ybarra-Frausto.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Gerald E. Poyo and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto -- Part I. History, Culture and Ideology -- Descriving the "New World": de dicto vs. re, historians vs. eyewitnesses / José Antonio Gurpegui and Carmen Gómez Galisteo -- Recurperando la memoria cultural: Cleofas Jaramillo y las rectas originales de Nuevo México / Alicia Verónica Sánchez Martinez -- Women writers in the nineteenth century Hispanic southwest: letters, discources and linguistics / Alejandra Balestra -- Part II. Women's voices: gender, politics and culture -- Recovering the self: the unnamed characters of Luisa Capetillo's How Poor Women Prostitute Themselves / Nancy Bird-Soto -- El héroe agachado or the hero that wasn't: virile language and women's quest for political participation / Pilar Melero -- Treacherous women in the crónicas of Quezigno Gazavic: a strategy in creating community / Gabriela Baeza Ventur -- Part III. Ampara Ruiz de Burton: literature and history -- Building a bridge to the twentieth century: Ruiz de Burton's novel techne in The Squatter and The Don / Kevin Anzzolin -- Irony and laughter in Luiz de Burton's public sphere/ Timothy P. Gaster --The interior frontier man: The Squatter and The Don, the conquest of manhood and the making of Mexican-American literature / Alberto Varon -- Part IV. Language representation and translation -- Representation of language in three early novels by U.S. latinos / María Irene Moyna -- "Keeping it real": the translation of El Sol de Texas / Ethriam Cash Brammer de Gonzales.

Essays in English and Spanish.

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