03976nam 2200661Ia 450 991096594810332120250704114944.097816119244281611924421(CKB)2670000000186339(SSID)ssj0000658318(PQKBManifestationID)11371387(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658318(PQKBWorkID)10681619(PQKB)11392129(MiAaPQ)EBC3115155(Au-PeEL)EBL3115155(CaPaEBR)ebr10555593(OCoLC)922965528(MiFhGG)9781611924428(NyNyDIG)DIGARTEP0063(BIP)41425844(BIP)29532098(EXLCZ)99267000000018633920120511d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRecovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritageVolume 8 /edited by Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Clara Lomas1st ed.Houston Arte Publico Pressc2011xii, 219 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781558856042 1558856048 Includes bibliographical references.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.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."American literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticismHispanic American literature (Spanish)History and criticismHispanic Americans in literatureHispanic AmericansIntellectual lifeAmerican literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticism.Hispanic American literature (Spanish)History and criticism.Hispanic Americans in literature.Hispanic AmericansIntellectual life.810.80868Ventura Gabriela Baeza1787981Lomas Clara1787804MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965948103321Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage4322124UNINA