Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.