Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on Translations, Terminology, and the Limits of Language vii
4. Introduction: A Novel and a History “Yellowed and Tattered with Age” 1
5. 1. Imperial Republics: Lorenzo de Zavala’s Travels between Civilization and Barbarism 28
6. 2. A Proposed Intercultural and (Neo)colonial Coalition: Justo Sierra O’Reilly’s Yucatecan Borderlands 66
7. 3. A Transnational Romance: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? 96
8. 4. Between Two Empires: The Black Legend and Off-Whiteness in Eusebio Chacón’s New Mexican Literary Tradition 127
9. Conclusion: Remember(ing) the Alamo: Archival Ghosts, Past and Future 159
10. Acknowledgments 167
11. Notes 171
12. Bibliography 209
13. Index 223
14. About the Author 231