Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. A Neuvomexicano Culture of Print
1. Mexicanos in the History of the Early Press in the Southwest
The Martinez Press and the Ideology of Literacy
The Press in New Mexico After the American Conquest
The Emergence of Spanish-language Journalism in New Mexico
Canjes: The Dialogic Exchange of Border Papers
2. A Generation in Transition
Witnessing Social Change: The Life of J.M.H. Alarid
Structures of Domination
Education, Biliteracy, and the World Beyond the Village
Neo-Mexicanismo and Cultural Ascendancy
3. Contesting Social and Historical Erasure: The Discursive Agency of La Prensa Asociada Hispano-Americana
Discourse and Ideological Alliance
A Voice for the People: La Compana Publicista de La Voz
Part II. Neo-Mexicano Culture in Print
4. News, Bio-Texts, and Neo-Mexicano Historiography: Writing Against Cultural Excision
News of History: The Axiology of the Past and Present
Bio-Narrative Credentialing: Projections Onto History
Historical Biography
From Boceto to Biographical Communitas
Benjamin M. Read (1853-1927), Neo-Mexicano Chronicler-Historian
5. The Poetics of Self-Representation in Neo-Mexicano Literary Discourse: Una literatura nacional
Foundational Texts in Neo-Mexicano/Chicano Literature
Credo and Desire Among Neo-Mexicano Literates: The Progress of Belles Lettres upon High Deserts of Representation
Um Totum Revoltijum: Adelfa, Espiridion, and El Pachuco Vacilon
6. The Neo-Mexicano Cultural Movement After Statehood
La Nueva Generacion: The Daughters of Editors
The Unfinished Work of "Bringing Honor to the Homeland": Felipe Maximiliano Chacon (1873-1949)
Revista Illustrada: Time Capsule
of Neo-Mexicano/a Representations
Containment Within and Without: Arbitrating the Authority of Neo-Mexicano Cultural Representations
"Fighting the Good Fight": La Prensa Asociada in Post-Statehood New Mexico
Epilogue
Notes
Sources Cited
Index