This third volume of academic essays on recovering the Hispanic literary heritage of the United States features 27 articles by leading scholars. It addresses the broad topics of "Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels; " "Women's Voices: The Construction of Ethnic Gender Identities"; "Chroniclers, Ethnographers, and Historians; " "Identity and Affirmation: Contextualizing U.S. Hispanic Literature; " and "Using Historical, Archival, and Oral Sources". Editors Maria Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sanchez Korrol also contribute a unifying introduction.