Includes bibligraphical references and index.

The Function of the La Lorona Motif in Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima / Jane Rogers -- Ron Arias' The Road to Tamazunchale: A Chicano Novel of the New Reality / Eliud Martinez -- Buffaloes and Cockroaches: Acosta's Seige of Aztlan / Norman D. Smith -- Pocho and the American Dream / Luther S. Luedtke -- The Concept of Time in Nambe--Year One / Nasario Garcia -- On the Vicissitudes of Being "Puerto Rican": An Exploration of Pedro Juan Soto's Hot Land, Cold Season / Eduardo Seda Bonilla -- Time and History in Candelaria's Memories of the Albambra / Vernon E. Lattin -- Inter-Sexual and Intertextual Codes in the Poetry of Bernice Zamora / Mara E. Sanchez -- Tortuga: A Novel of Archetypal Structure / Edward Elias -- Richard Rodriguez' Hunger of Memory as Humanistic Anithesis / Tomas Rivera -- A Reassessment of Fray Angelico Chavez's Fiction / Genaro M. Padilla -- El diablo en Texas: Structure Meaning / Marvin A. Lewis -- Time as a Structural Device in Tomas Rivera's "...y no se lo trago la tierra" / Alfonso Rodriguez -- The Establishment of Community in Zora Neale Hurston's The Eatonville Anthology (1926) and Rolando Hinojosa's Estampas del valle (1973) / Heiner Bus -- The Dynamics of Myth in the Creative Vision of Rudolfo Anaya / Enrique Lamadrid -- Two Texts for a New Canon: Vicente Bernal's Las Primicias and Felipe Maximiliano Chacon's Poesia y Prosa / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry -- Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer / Alvina E. Quintana -- Crossing Borders: An Aesthetic Practice in Writings / Gloria anzaldua by Gloria Anzaldua / Monika Kaup.