This volume presents 15 essays that place Latino/a writers, Spanish texts, and Latino/a readers central in 19th-century American culture, across the country and including their Latin American
roots. English, literature, and Latino studies scholars from the US examine José Irisarri’s novel El crisitano errante; the writing of Adolfo and Frederic Cavada; the work of Manuel Torres;
viewing the lost stories of disrupted immigrants or others as “almost-Latino” literature; Latino/a short fiction; early Mexican American literature; Ruiz de Burton’s railroad fiction; Juan
Nepomuceno Cortina’s proclamations against Texas; the importance of the Latina American archive for Latino/a studies, discussed through the work of Raimundo Cabrera; Argentine travel writing;
Cuban nationalism and politics in Key West, Florida; citizenship and illegality in the global California Gold Rush, and the connection to Chile, as seen in the writings of Vicente Pérez
Rosales; José Marti, “Pachin” Marín, Lucy Parsons, and the politics of Latinidad; and the biographical work of Sotero Figeroa. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
