Herencia : the Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- An Overview of Hispanic Literature of the United States
- PART I. The Literature of Exploration and Colonization
- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Account (excerpt)
- Fray Marcos de Niza: Discovery of the Seven Cities of Cibola (excerpt)
- Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo: La Florida (excerpt)
- Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá: History of New Mexico (excerpt)
- Fray Francisco de Escobar: The Account (excerpt)
- Fray Matías Sáenz de San Antonio: Lord, if the shepherd does not hear the sheep's complaint...
- PART II. Native Literature
- CHAPTER 1. Toward a Mestizo Culture
- Anonymous: By This Divine Light...
- Anonymous: The Comanches
- Anonymous: Little Indian Ballad of Plácida Romero
- Anonymous: The Contest of Coffee and Corn Gruel
- CHAPTER 2. Memories of Things Past
- José Francisco Palomares: Testimony Recounted by José Francisco Palomares
- Brígida Briones: A Glimpse of Domestic Life in 1827
- Maria de las Angustias de la Guerra de Ord: Occurrences in Hispanic California
- Platón Vallejo: Letter to William Heath Davis
- José Policarpo Rodriguez: "The Old Guide": Surveyor, Scout, Hunter, Indian Fighter, Ranchman, Preacher: His Life in His Own Words
- CHAPTER 3. Roots of Resistance
- Juan Nepomuceno Seguín: Personal Memoirs of John N. Seguín, from the Year 1834 to the Retreat of General Woll from the City of San Antonio 1842
- Francisco Ramírez: Editorials
- Pablo de la Guerra: The Californios
- Juan Nepomuceno Cortina: Proclamation
- Anonymous: Joaquín Murieta
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
- Miguel Antonio Otero, Jr.: The Real Billy the Kid (excerpt)
- María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: The Squatter and the Don
- CHAPTER 4. Defending Cultural and Civil Rights
- Eusebio Chacón: A Protest Rally, 1901
- Aurora Lucero White Lea: Plea for the Spanish Language.
- P.G.": The Spanish Language: A Plea to the Hispanic Legislators
- Jovita Idar: For Our Race: Preservation of Nationalism
- We Should Work
- LA DEFENSA,: Greetings and Aims (editorial)
- Lorenzo Piñeiro Rivera et al.: Open Letter to a Libelist
- Alonso S. Perales: Ignorance: The Cause of Racial Discrimination
- The Evolution of Mexican-Americans
- Emma Tenayuca and Homer Brooks: The Mexican Question in the Southwest
- Isabel González: Step-Children of a Nation
- Amèrico Paredes: The Mexico-Texan
- The Hammon and the Beans
- CHAPTER 5. Preserving Cultural Traditions
- Adina De Zavala: The Courteous and Kindly Child and the "Good People" on the Underground Passageway
- Adolfo Carrillo: The Phantoms at San Luis Rey
- Herminia Chacón: Samuel's Christmas Eve
- Jovita González: The First Cactus Blossom
- Marcelina: Midwife
- Nina Otero-Warren: The Clown of San Cristóbal
- Fray Angelico Chavez: The Fiddler and the Angelito
- CHAPTER 6. Militant Aesthetics
- Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales: I Am Joaquín
- Miguel Méndez: Pilgrims in Aztlán (excerpt)
- Alurista: must be the season of the witch
- mis ojos hinchados
- Rolando Hinojosa: Dear Rafe
- Pedro Pietri: Puerto Rican Obituary
- Miguel Algarín: Saliendo
- Light after Blackout
- Luis Valdez: Los Vendidos
- CHAPTER 7. Contemporary Reflections on Identity
- José Yglesias: The Truth about Them (excerpt)
- Piri Thomas: Down These Mean Streets (excerpt)
- Miguel Piñero: A Lower East Side Poem
- Nicholasa Mohr: Uncle Claudio
- Tato Laviera: my graduation speech
- the africa in pedro morejón
- Cherríe Moraga: La Güera
- Gloria Anzaldúa: How to Tame a Wild Tongue
- Alicia Achy Obejas: Above All, a Family Man
- Sandra María Esteves: My Name Is María Christina
- Anonymous Apartheid
- Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales: Ending Poem.
- Oscar Hijuelos: Our House in the Last World (excerpt)
- Graciela Limón: Day of the Moon (excerpt)
- Gustavo Pérez Firmat: Anything but Love (excerpt)
- CHAPTER 8. Rites of Passage
- Evelio Grillo: Going Up North
- Sabine Ulibarrí: My Wonder Horse
- Tomás Rivera: First Communion
- Helena María Viramontes: The Moths
- Roberta Fernández: Amanda
- Judith Ortiz Cofer: Volar
- María Elena
- Exile
- CHAPTER 9. New Directions in Poetry
- Mercedes de Acosta: Day Laborer
- Strange City
- Victor Hernández Cruz: The Latest Latin Dance Craze
- today is a day of great joy
- Loisaida
- energy
- Lorna Dee Cervantes: Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
- Pat Mora: Legal Alien
- Curandera
- Alberto Alvaro Rios: Mi abuelo
- Wet Camp
- Nani
- PART III. The Literature of Immigration
- CHAPTER 10. Encounters with the Modern City
- José Martí: Two Views of Coney Island (excerpt)
- Francisco Gonzalo "Pachin" Marin: New York from Within: One Aspect of Its Bohemian Life
- Nicanor Bolet Peraza: Fourth Missive
- Alirio Díaz Guerra: Lucas Guevara (excerpt)
- Salomón de la Selva: A Song for Wall Street
- The Secret
- A. Ortiz-Vargas: The Hispanic Barrio
- Guillermo Cotto-Thorner: Tropics in Manhattan (excerpt)
- CHAPTER 11. Negotiating New Realities
- Wen Gálvez: My Valise
- Gustavo Alemán Bolaños: The Factory (excerpt)
- Conrado Espinosa: The Texas Sun (excerpt)
- Daniel Venegas: The Adventures of Don Chipote or, When Parrots Breast Feed (excerpt)
- Alberto O'Farrill: Easy Jobs
- Bernardo Vega: Memoirs of Bernardo Vega (excerpt)
- Anonymous: The Dishwasher
- The Deportee
- Miguel Angel Figueroa and Anonymous: A Jibaro's Lament
- A Jíbaro in New York
- Américo Meana: Prayer to Home Relief
- Gonzalo O'Neill: Take the Dead Man Away (excerpt)
- Luis Pérez: El Coyote/The Rebel (excerpt)
- René Marqués: The Oxcart (excerpt).
- Pedro Juan Soto: Scribbles
- José Luis González: The Night We Became People Again
- Iván Acosta: El Súper (excerpt)
- Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez: Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant (excerpt)
- Junot Diaz: No Face
- Mario Bencastro: Odyssey to the North (excerpt)
- CHAPTER 12. Early Perspectives on Class and Gender
- Leonor Villegas de Magnón: The Rebel Is a Girl
- María Cristina Mena: The Emotions of María Concepción
- Luisa Capetillo: How Poor Women Prostitute Themselves
- María Luisa Garza: The Intelligent Woman
- Julio G. Arce: The Stenographer
- Jesús and Netty Rodriguez: I'm Going to Mexico
- Jesús Colón: The Flapper
- Consuelo Lee Tapia: Women and Puerto Rican Identity
- CHAPTER 13. Editorial Discontent
- Sara Estela Ramírez: Speech Read by the Author on the Evening That the "Society of Workers" Celebrated the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of Its Founding
- Tomás Gares: The Castilian Language and Puerto Rico
- GRÁFICO: Editorial, August 7,1927
- Joaquín Colón: How to Unite the Puerto Rican Colony
- Rodolfo Uranga: Those Who Return
- Erasmo Vando: Open Lettter to Don Luis Muñoz Marín, President of the Puerto Rican Senate
- United States
- CHAPTER 14. Cultural (Dis)Junctures
- Eliseo Pérez Diaz: The Key West Rose (excerpt)
- Wilfredo Braschi: A Prayer in the Snow
- Ernesto Galarza: Barrio Boy (excerpt)
- Jesús Colón: Kipling and I
- Roberto Fernández: Miracle on Eighth and Twelfth
- Isaac Goldemberg: Chronicles
- Self-Portrait
- Dolores Prida: The Herb Shop
- Isabel Allende: The Argonauts
- CHAPTER 15. Reflections on the Dislocated Self
- Julia de Burgos: I Was My Own Route
- Farewell in Welfare Island
- Clemente Soto Vélez: Horizons
- Five-Pointed Stars
- Lucha Corpi: Mexico
- Dark Romance
- Marina Mother
- Virgil Suárez: Spared Angola
- Going Under (excerpt)
- Elías Miguel Muñoz: The Greatest Performance.
- Cristina García: A Matrix Light
- PART IV. The Literature of Exile
- CHAPTER 16. Struggle for Spanish-American Independence
- The Friend of Men": On Behalf of Mankind: To All the Inhabitants of the Islands and the Vast Continent of Spanish America
- José Alvarez de Toledo y Dubois: Mexicans: Signaled by Providence . . .
- Vicente Rocafuerte Bejarano: Necessary Ideas for All Independent People of the Americas Who Want to Be Free
- Félix Varela: Essay on Slavery
- Jicoténcal
- [Enrique José Varona]: To the People of Cuba
- José Martí: With All, for the Good of All
- CHAPTER 17. Hymn of the Exile
- José María Heredia: Hymn of the Exile
- Miguel Teurbe Tolón: Always
- Song of the Cuban Women
- Pedro Santicilia: To Spain
- Juan Clemente Zenea: In Greenwood
- Bonifacio Byrne: My Flag
- Lola Rodríguez de Tió: Ode to October 10
- Francisco Gonzalo "Pachin" Marin: A Statistic
- Fragments
- Francisco Sellén: Hatuey
- José Martí: Simple Verses
- CHAPTER 18. Against Tyranny
- Andrea and Teresa Villarreal: Why Are You Still Here, Mexican Men? Fly to the Battlefield
- Enrique Flores Magón: Revolutionary Hymn
- Ricardo Flores Magón: Letter
- Mariano Azuela: The Underdogs
- Santiago Argüello: The Aching Soul
- Gustavo Solano: Blood
- Lirón: Postcard
- Juan Antonio Corretjer: Emmaus
- Stuck to the Wall
- Carmita Landestoy: I Also Accuse! By Way of a Prologue
- CHAPTER 19. Contemporary Exiles
- Lino Novás Calvo: The Cow on the Rooftop: A Story of the Cuban Revolution
- José Kozer: It is dark...
- This señor don Gringo...
- Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls (excerpt)
- Luisa Valenzuela: I'm Your Horse in the Night
- Emma Sepúlveda: I Grew Accustomed
- Here Am I Now
- Matías Montes Huidobro: Exile (excerpt)
- PART V. Epilogue: Sin Fronteras, Beyond Boundaries.