Table of Contents
Preface Jesse Alemán vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Historical Latinidades and Archival Encounters Rodrigo Lazo 1
1 The Errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and Migrations Intention Kirsten Silva Gruesz 20
2 Historicizing Nineteenth-Century Latina/o Textuality Raúl Coronado 49
3 On the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelphia Emily García 71
4 From Union Officers to Cuban Rebels: The Story of the Brothers Cavada and Their American Civil Wars Jesse Alemán 89
5 Almost-Latino Literature: Approaching Truncated Latinidades Robert McKee Irwin 110
6 Toward a Reading of Nineteenth-Century Latino/a Short Fiction John Alba Cutler 124
7 When Archives Collide: Recovering Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature José Aranda 146
8 Feeling Mexican: Ruiz de Burton's Sentimental Railroad Fiction Marissa K. López 168
9 Pronouncing Citizenship: Juan Nepomuceno Cortina's War to Be Read Alberto Varon 191
10 Raimundo Cabrera, the Latin American Archive, and the Latina/o Continuum Carmen E. Lamas 210
11 Flirting in Yankeeland: Rethinking American Exceptionalism through Argentine Travel Writing Carrie Tirado Bramen 230
12 "Hacemos la guerra pacífica": Cuban Nationalism and Politics in Key West, 1870-1900 Gerald E. Poyo 255
13 Citizenship and Illegality in the Global California Gold Rush Juan Poblete 278
14 "El negro es tan capaz como el bianco": José Martí, "Pachín" Marín, Lucy Parsons, and the Politics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Latinidad Laura Lomas 301
15 Sotero Figueroa: Writing Afro-Caribbeans into History in the Late Nineteenth Century Nicolás Kanellos 323
Response: From Criollo/a to Latino/a: The Latino Nineteenth Century in a Hemispheric Context Ralph Bauer 341
About the Contributors 353
Index 359