Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Contesting the canon. Discourse production and the expression of gender roles in the writings of Marria Cristina Mena
  • Heroic boys and good neighbors: Cold War discourse and the symbolism of Chapultepee in Maria Cristina Mena's Boy hereoes of Chapultepec
  • Squatting in uncle Tom's cabin: intertextual references and literary tactics of nineteenth-century U.S. women writers
  • Part II. Mapping Latino voices in the United States. España libre: periodico de exilio español en Nueva York
  • No hay justicia! the execution of simplicio Torres
  • Recovering Spanish-language education in Alta California ecologies, ideologies and intertextualities
  • Part III. Postcoloniality in autobiography. Autobiographical politics in the contact zone: Miguel Antonio Otero's My life on the frontier
  • The autobiography of conversion of Rev. Santiago Tafolla, Sr., runaway, soldier, and Methodist minister: a postcolonial Bildungsroman
  • De la experiencia a la ensenanza: contrastes estructurales y didaticos en El sol de Texas y macho!
  • Part IV. Nationalism in contact zones. The Mexican-American novel of the Revolution: reading the immigrant nationalism of Leonor Villegas de Magnon's The rebel
  • The return of Jose Castro: the Baja California correspondence of Alta California's last commander general
  • La figura del sacrificio como expresion nacionalista en las obras Hatuey ye la muerte de placido.