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 literary heritage through a critical examination of key texts produced in the Southwest from 1542 to 1848. Drawing on research in the archives of Southwestern libraries and applying contemporary literary theoretical constructs to these centuries-old manuscripts, the authors–all noted scholars in Chicano literature–demonstrate that these works should be recognized as an integral part of American literature.CONTENTS Reconstructing a Chicano a Literary Heritage, by Maria Herrera-SobekPart Critical ReconstructionShipwrecked in the Seas of Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relacion and Chicano Literature, by Juan Bruce-NovoaDiscontinuous Remapping the Terrain of Spanish Colonial Narrative, by Genaro PadillaA Franciscan Mission The Discourse of Power and Social Organization, by Tino VillanuevaThe Politics of Theater in Colonial New Drama and the Rhetoric of Conquest, by Ramon GutierrezThe Comedia de Adan y Eva and Language A Lacanian Hermeneutics of a New Mexican Shepherds’ Play, by Maria Herrera-SobekPart Sources of ReconstructionPoetic Discourse in Perez de Villagra’s Historia de la Nueva Mexico, by Luis LealFray Geronimo Boscana’s An Early California Text in Search of a Context, by Francisco A. Lomeli and “?Y Donde Estaban las Mujeres? and “: In Pursuit of an Hispana Literary and Historical Heritage in Colonial New Mexico, 1580-1840, by Tey Diana RebolledoEntre Cibolos Images of Native Americans in the Popular Culture of Colonial New Mexico, by Enrique Lamadrid

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