%0 Journal Article 
%A Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M.
%T History, poetry, and politics in Gaspar de Villagrá's : Historia de la nueva México
%D 2012
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11065
%X Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nveva Mexico (1610) has lingered on the margins of U.S. literary history for centuries. Embraced as a source of historical information, the poem was seldom seen as a work of literary merit. In the past four decades, however, critics of Chicano/a literature have paved the way for a reinterpretation of the poem that places Villagrá’s Historia at the onset of Chicano/a letters. But reclaiming the poem means addressing its politics as well. In this article, I analyze the
ways in which history, poetry, and politics are intertwined in Villagrá’s Historia in ways that maximize ambiguity, open-endedness, and contradiction.

%K Gaspar de Villagrá
%K Literary history
%K Margins
%K Chicano/a literature
%K Colonial violence
%K Ambiguity
%K Open-endedness
%K Historia literaria
%K Margen
%K Literatura chicana
%K Violencia colonial
%K Ambigüedad
%K Apertura textual
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