Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino WritingThis polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz proposes a major revision of the nineteenth century U. S. canon and its historical contexts. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials and building on an