Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272) and index.
Contents
Recovering Mexican American autobiography -- Autobiographical prefigurations : the encodations of accommodation -- "It is my history, not yours I propose to tell" : history as autobiography in Mariano G. Vallejo's "Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California" -- "Yo sola aprendi" : autobiographical agency against testimonial expectations in California women's personal narrative --Leaving a "clean and honorable name" : Rafael Chacon's "Memorias" --Lies, secrets, and silence : cultural autobiography as resistance in Cleofas Jaramillo's Romance of a little village girl.
