Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: The Recovery project comes of age. Romancing hegemony: constructing racialized citizenship in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the don / John M. González
  • Textual and land reclamations: the critical reception of early Chicana/o literature / Manuel M. Martín Rodríguez
  • 'Who ever heard of a blue-eyed Mexican?': satire and sentimentality in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who would have thought it? / Anne E. Goldman
  • Part II: Assimilation, accommodation or resistance? 'Fantasy heritage' reexamined: race and class in the writings of the Bandini family authors and other Californios, 1828-1965 / F. Arturo Rosales
  • Outlaws or religious mystics? Public identity and los penitentes in Mexican-American autobiography / Margaret García Davidson
  • 'We can starve too': Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez and the proletarian Corrido / Tim Libretti.
  • Part III: History in literature/literature in history. Having the last word: recording the cost of conquest in Los Comanches / Sandra Dahlberg
  • Luisa Capetillo: an anarcho-feminist pionera in the mainland/Puerto Rican narrative/political transition / Lisa Sánchez González
  • The Recovery of the first history of Alta California: Antonio María Osio's La historia de Alta California / Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
  • Adina de Zavala's alamo: history and legendry as critical (counter-alamo) discourse / Richard R. Flores
  • Part IV: Writing the revolution. Práxedis G. Guerrero: revolutionary writer or writer as revolutionary / Ward S. Albro
  • Before the revolution: Catarino Garza as activist/historian / Elliott Young
  • Part V: Recovering the creation of community. Spanish-language journalism in the Southwest: history and discursive practice / Gabriel Meléndez
  • Cultural continuity in the face of change: Hispanic printers in Texas / Laura Gutiérrez-Witt
  • The Tradition of Hispanic theater and the WPA Federal Theatre Project in Tamp-Ybor City, Florida / Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez.