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Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest Item Type book; text Publisher University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ) Rights Copyright © 1993 by The Arizona Board of Regents. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY- NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Download date 11/10/2021 08:08:24 Item License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632275 RECONSTRUCTING A CHICANO/A LITERARY HERITAGE HISPANIC COLONIAL LITERA TURE OFTHE SOUTHWEST EDITED BY MAR fA HERRERA-SOBEK Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest Edited by MARIA HERRERA-SOBEK THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS Tucson This Open Arizona edition is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona.edu Copyright © 1993 by The Arizona Board of Regents Open-access edition published 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-3780-8 (open-access e-book) The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Typographical errors may have been introduced in the digitization process. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: Reconstructing a Chicano/a literary heritage : Hispanic colonial literature of the Southwest / edited by María Herrera-Sobek. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8165-1350-3 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8165-1883-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Spanish American literature—To 1800—History and criticism. 2. American literature—Southwest, New—History and criticism. I. Herrera-Sobek, María. PQ7081.A1R315 1993 860-9ʹ868—dc20 92-45616 CIP British Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library For Erik Jason Sobek and Joseph George Sobek, Jr. Contents List of Contributors ix Preface xm Acknowledgments xvu Introduction: Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage xix MAR[A HERRERA-SOBEK PART I CRITICAL RECONSTRUCTION Shipwrecked in the Seas of Signification: Cabeza de Vaca·s La Relacion and Chicano [iterature 3 JUAN BRUCE-NOVOA Discontinuous Continuities: Remapping the Terrain of Spanish Colonial Narrative 24 GENARO PADILLA A Franciscan Mission Manual: The Discourse of Power and Social Organization 3 7 TINO VILLANUEVA VHl Contents The Politics of Theater in Colonial New Mexico: Drama and the Rhetoric of Conquest 49 RAMON GUTIERREZ The Comedia de Adan y Eva and Language Acquisition: A Lacanian Hermeneutics of a New Mexican Shepherds' Play 68 MARfA HERRERA-SOBEK PART II SOURCES OF RECONSTRUCTION Poetic Discourse in Perez de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico 95 LUIS LEAL Fray Geronimo Boscana's Chinigchinich: An Early California Text in Search of a Context r r 8 FRANCISCO A. LOMELf ";.Y D6nde Estaban las Mujeres?": In Pursuit of an Hispana Literary and Historical Heritage in Colonial New Mexico, I 580- I 840 140 TEY DIANA REBOLLEDO Entre C £bolos Criado: Images of Native Americans in the Popular Culture of Colonial New Mexico 1 58 ENRIQUE LAMADRID Index 201 Contributors JUAN BRUCE-NOVOA is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Irvine. His published works include a book of poetry titled Inocencia perversa!Perverse Innocence, a collection of interviews titled Chicano Au thors: Inquiry by Interview, and the critical works Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos, and RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature Theory and History. He has edited a number of scholarly anthologies. Bruce-Novoa has taught in Germany and at Harvard University, Yale University, Trinity University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. RAM6N GUTIERREZ is Professor of History and is the founding chair of the new Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, r500-1846 (1991) and has published numerous articles in journals. He has lectured extensively in the United States and in Europe. MARIA HERRERA-SOBEK is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include The Bracero Experience: Elite/ore Versus Folklore ( I 979), The Mexican Corrido: A feminist Analy sis (1990), and Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song (forthcoming); she has edited four critical anthol ogies: Beyond Stereotypes: The Critical Analysis of Chicana Literature X Contributors ( 1985), Gender and Print Culture: New Perspectives on International Bal lad Studies (1991), Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting Neu, Frontiers in American Literature (with Helena Maria Viramontes; 1988), and Chicana Writes: On Word and Film (with Viramontes; forthcoming); she has also edited one textbook, with Seymour Men ton, Saga de Mexico (1992). She is one of three women featured in the poetry collection Three Times a Woman. Herrera-Sobek is cur rently working on a book on pastorelas. ENRIQUE R. LAMADRID is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He is also the director of the Co nexiones Institute based in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. Lamadrid has published numerous articles on Hispanic folklore. In addition to scholarly articles he has edited Un ojo en el muro: Mexican Poetry 1970-r985 and En breve: Minimalism in Mexican Poetry 1900-1985. He has also produced a three-hour sound track, "Tesoros de! Espi ritu," for the New Mexican folk culture exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. LUIS LEAL is Professor Emeritus (University of Illinois), now at the Univer sity of California, Santa Barbara, and Visiting Professor of Spanish at Stanford University. Professor Leal is a highly respected scholar honored in both Mexico and the United States. Among his numerous publications are Mat·iano Awe/a, vida y obra (1961), Historia de/ cuento hispanoamericano ( 1966), Juan Ruffo (1983), Aztldn y Mexico (1985). Professor Leal"s extensive published works have been com piled in Luis Leal: A Bibliography with Interpretative and Critical Essays (1988). He was honored in 1987 by the National Association of Chicano Studies with the Distinguished Scholar Award, and in 1991 he received the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration offered by the Mexican government "for outstanding contributions." FRANCISCO A. LOMELf is Professor of Spanish and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include Chicano Perspectives in Literature ( r 976) and La novdistica de Carlos Droguett (1983). He has coedited several anthologies, including A Decade of Chicano Literature ( 1970-1979) ( 1982), Chicano Literature: Contributors XI A Reference Guide (1985), Aztlan: ESJays on the Chicano Homeland ( I 989), and Dictionary of Literary Biography ( I 989). GENARO PADILLA is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He edited The Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez and has written numerous articles; he is currently finishing a book on the formation of Chicano autobiography. TEY DIANA REBOLLEDO is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Univer sity of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She is a specialist in Chicana lit erature and has written numerous articles. She coedited the anthol ogies Las mujeres hablan ( 1988) and Infinite Divisiom: An Anthology of Chicana Literature ( I 993). TINO VILLANUEVA is a Preceptor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at Boston University. He has published numerous scholarly articles in national and international journals. His poetry collections include Hay otra voz poems ( 1972), Shaking off the Dark (1984), and Cronica de mis aiios peores (1987). He is the editor of Chicanos: Antologia hist6rica y literaria (1980, 1985) and publisher of Imagine: International Chicano Poetry Journal. Preface The first sprouts of this anthology surfaced at the Modern Language Association Annual Conference held in San Francisco on December 27-30, 1987, when poet and critic Tino Villanueva invited several scholars, includ ing myself, to participate in a panel on colonial literature titled "Las cr6nicas espanolas y la literatura chicana" ("The Spanish Chronicles and Chicano/a Literature"). As its name indicates, the panel focused its scholarly optic on the analysis of Spanish colonial literature of the American Southwest. The participants of that panel, aside from Tino Villanueva and myself, included Professor Luis Leal, who spoke on "Armas y letras en la Historia de fa Nueva Mexico," and Armando Miguelez, who read "Conceptos de la Ilustraci6n en las cr6nicas de! siglo dieciocho en Aztlan" ("The Concepts of the Enlighten ment and the Eighteenth-Century Chronicles from Aztlan"). My interest in the colonial period stems principally from my work on pastorefas (shepherds' plays). Most books on the history and literature of the Southwest point to the autos sacramentafes (mystery plays) and pastorefas as some of the oldest examples of European theater; they were brought over by the Spanish conquistadores in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Given that these two genres are still represented in the Southwest, I began to see a direct connection between colonial literary writings