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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965948103321

Titolo

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage . Volume 8 / / edited by Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Clara Lomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houston, : Arte Publico Press, c2011

ISBN

9781611924428

1611924421

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 219 p

Altri autori (Persone)

VenturaGabriela Baeza

LomasClara

Disciplina

810.80868

Soggetti

American literature - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism

Hispanic American literature (Spanish) - History and criticism

Hispanic Americans in literature

Hispanic Americans - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Discourse Production and the Expression of Gender Roles in the Writings of María Cristina Mena -- Heroic Boys and Good Neighbors: Cold War Discourse and the Symbolism of Chapultepec in María Cristina Mena's Boy Heroes of Chapultepec -- Squatting in Uncle Tom's Cabin: Intertextual References and Literary Tactics of Nineteenth- Century U. S. Women Writers -- Espana Libre: periódico de exilio en Nueva York -- ¡No Hay Justicia! The Execution of Simplicio Torres -- Recovering Spanish-Language Education in Alta California: Ecologies, Ideologies and Intertexualities -- 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 enseñanza: Contrastes estructurales y didácticos en El sol de Texas y Macho! -- The Mexican-American Novel of the Revolution Reading the Immigrant Nationalism of Leonor Villegas de Magnón's The Rebel -- The Return of José Castro: The Baja California Correspondence of Alta California's Last Commander General -- La figura del sacrificio como expresión



nacionalista en las obras Hatuey y La muerte de Placido -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

These twelve pieces explore the meaning of "Nuestra América", our America, as José Marti posited in his well-known essay on U.S. Expansionism and imperialistic ploys. Scholars from the U.S. And abroad explore the "contact zones" that originated from the clash and/or syntheses between the U.S. And Latin America. Divided into four sections, this collection focuses on themes such as "Contesting the Canon," "Mapping Latino Voices in the United States," "Postcoloniality in Autobiography" and "Nationalism in Contact Zones."