Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage / María Herrera-Sobek
Part I. Critical Reconstruction
Shipwrecked in the Seas of Signification: Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relación and Chicano Literature / Juan Bruce-Novoa
Discontinuous Continuities: Remapping the Terrain of Spanish Colonial Narrative / Genaro Padilla
A Franciscan Mission Manual: The Discourse of Power and Social Organization / Tino Villanueva
The Politics of Theater in Colonial New Mexico: Drama and the Rhetoric of Conquest / Ramón Gutiérrez
The Comedia de Adán y Eva and Language Acquisition: A Lacanian Hermeneutics of a New Mexican Shepherd’s Play / María Herrera-Sobek
Part II. Sources of Reconstruction
Poetic Discourse in Pérez de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva México / Luis Leal
Fray Gerónimo Boscana’s Chinigchinich: An Early California Text in Search of a Context / Francisco A. Lomelí
“¿Y Dónde Estaban las Mujeres?”: In Pursuit of an Hispana Literary and Historical Heritage in Colonial New Mexico, 1580–1840 / Tey Diana Rebolledo
Entre Cíbolos Criado: Images of Native Americans in the Popular Culture of Colonial New Mexico / Enrique Lamadrid
Index