Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Foundational Histories: The Future of Chicano/a Literary Studies
1. Making the Case for New Chicano/a Studies: Recovering Our Alienated Selves
The Chicano/a Political Imaginary
Chicano/a Marxism and the Foundations of Chicano/a Studies
The Difference Mestizaje Makes
The Future of Chicano/a Studies
2. Literary Origins in an Age of Multiculturalism
The Puritan Legacy of Self-Invention
A Pledge of Literary Allegiance
What's Puritan about Chicano/a Literature?
Calls for Change in American Literary History: Two Views
Opportunities for Comparative Approaches
Part II. Nuestra Literatura Americana: Toward an Integrated Literary History
3. All Strangers in a Strange Land: When Anglo and Mexican Histories Collide
A Short Biography of Marfa Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Questionable Differences: Mexicanos y Anglos in Baja California, 1848
Civil War and the Absence ofThanksgiving in Who Would Have Thought It?
Recognized at Last
4. One Nation under New England: Immigration, Citizenship, and Representation
Land of Dreams, Land of Nativism, 1880-1920
Constructing the Ideal Immigrant Community, 1920-1940
A Community of Scholars, Harvard 1946
The Immigrant Dilemma: Mexican American Literature, 1900-1960
Immigration and Xenophobia: Maria Cristina Mena (1893-1965)
Greenhorn Immigrants and the Debunking of America: Daniel Venegas (Dates Unknown)
Immigration and the Crisis of Identity: Americo Paredes (1915-1999)
Immigration and the Pursuit of Civil Rights: Jovita Gonzalez (1904-1987)
The Fulfilled Immigrant: America, Land of Education: Luis Perez (1904-1962)
Exodus and the Birth of the Pocho: Jose Antonio Villarreal (b. 1924)
5. From Camelot to Barrio on a Hill: Contemporary Chicano/a Literature and the Puritan Crucible
Common Ground on Different Borders: A Comparative Approach
Cotton Mather and Pat Mora: The People of the New World
Michael Wigglesworth and Lorna Dee Cervantes: Jeremiads Then and Now
Edward Taylor and Gary Soto: Shaping Masculinity through Community
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index