Contents

Preface

Jesse Alemán

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Historical Latinidades and Archival Encounters

Rodrigo Lazo

1. The Errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and Migration’s Intention

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

2. Historicizing Nineteenth-Century Latina/o Textuality

Raúl Coronado

3. On the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelphia

Emily García

4. From Union Officers to Cuban Rebels: The Story of the Brothers Cavada and Their American Civil Wars

Jesse Alemán

5. Almost-Latino Literature: Approaching Truncated Latinidades

Robert McKee Irwin

6. Toward a Reading of Nineteenth-Century Latino/a Short Fiction

John Alba Cutler

7. When Archives Collide: Recovering Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature

José Aranda

8. Feeling Mexican: Ruiz de Burton’s Sentimental Railroad Fiction

Marissa K. López

9. Pronouncing Citizenship: Juan Nepomuceno Cortina’s War to Be Read

Alberto Varon

10. Raimundo Cabrera, the Latin American Archive, and the Latina/o Continuum

Carmen E. Lamas

11. Flirting in Yankeeland: Rethinking American Exceptionalism through Argentine Travel Writing

Carrie Tirado Bramen

12. “Hacemos la guerra pacífica”: Cuban Nationalism and Politics in Key West, 1870–1900

Gerald E. Poyo

13. Citizenship and Illegality in the Global California Gold Rush

Juan Poblete

14. “El negro es tan capaz como el blanco”: José Martí, “Pachín” Marín, Lucy Parsons, and the Politics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Latinidad

Laura Lomas

15. Sotero Figueroa: Writing Afro-Caribbeans into History in the Late Nineteenth Century

Nicolás Kanellos

Response: From Criollo/a to Latino/a: The Latino Nineteenth Century in a Hemispheric Context

Ralph Bauer

About the Contributors

Index