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Introduction / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Part I textuality and social context -- Conquista o compra? Dos interpretaciones del tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo / Luis Leal -- Crónica de una guerra anunciada: a critical report about the US press in the Spanish American war (1898) / Alfredo A. Fernandez -- The rough ride through empire: "Los Comanches" after 1898 / Curtis Marez -- Una flor en la sombra: a critical edition of the complete works of Virginia Peña de Bordas / Daiisy Cocco de Filippis -- Remapping the archive: recovered literature and the deterritorialization of the Canon / Thomas J. Kinney -- Part II History, culture and the literary -- Anónimo no more: toward a transnational theory of nineteenth-century poetic practice / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- South by Southwest: land and community in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don and Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's historical and personal memoirs relating to Alta California / Vincent Pérez -- Alberto O'Farrill y Jesús Colón: dos cronistas en Nueva York / Alejandra Balestra -- El aspecto carnavalesco en las aventuras de Don Chipote, o cuando los perico mamen / Gabriela Baeza Ventura -- Part III Folk traditions and community identities -- La indita de San Luis Gonzaga: war with Spain, faith, and ethnic relations in the evolution of a New Mexican religious ballad / Enrique R. Lamadrid -- Pastoras and malinches: women in a traditional folk drama of Laredo, Texas / Norma E. Cantú -- Jovita González y su obra folklórico-literaria: reconstrucción de la historia cultural México-americana / Sergio Reyna -- Life and death along the waterways of South Louisiana: Isleño oral narratives and the hurracane of 1915 / Jeanne L. Gillespie -- Part IV Writing modernity Fighting on two fronts: José de la :Luz Saenz and the language of the Mexica American civil rights movement / Wmilio Zamora -- Inscribing Mexica-American modernism in Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez / Christopher Schedler -- Terms of engagement: nation or patriarchy in Jovita González's and Eve Raleigh's Caballero / John M. González -- Auto/ethnography and the politics of recovery: narrative anxiety in the borderlands of culture / Sonja Z. Pérez.

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