Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest

• Other Authors: Herrera-Sobek, María (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 1993
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Ethnic studies; Language & Literature; American Studies; Latin American Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Early literary works written in Spanish in what is today the American Southwest have been largely excluded from the corpus of American literature, yet these documents are the literary antecedents of contemporary Chicano and Chicana writing.This collection of essays establishes the importance of this...