Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.