Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Literature as History
Part I. Autobiography and Testimonio
1. The Historian as Autobiographer: Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Urueta’s Memories of a Hyphenated Man
2. Identity and Gender in the Mexican American Testimonio: The Life and Narrative of Frances Esquibel Tywoniak&
3. Transculturation, Memory, and History: Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street—An Autobiography
4. Americanization, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: The Triple Consciousness of Richard Rodriguez and John Rechy&
5. Beyond Chicanismo: Gendered Transitions and Central American Women’s Autobiographies
Part II. The Novel
6. History, Literature, and the Chicano Working-Class Novel: A Critical Analysis of Alejandro Morales’s The Brick People
7. The Mexican American Search for Identity: Ruben Salazar’s Unpublished Novel, “A Stranger’s House”
8. ¡Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: A Historical Perspective on the Chicano Antiwar Movement in Stella Pope Duarte’s Let Their Spirits Dance&
Epilogue
Notes
Index