Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage VIII /
edited by Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Clara Lomas.
- 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations.
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. .
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication. .
Includes bibliographical references.
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. Espana libre: periodico de exilio espanol 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
Essays in English and Spanish.
1611924421 9781611924428
American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism. Hispanic American literature (Spanish)--History and criticism. Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life. Hispanic Americans in literature.