Table of Contents: “…Shipwrecked in the seas of signification: Cabeza de Vaca's La Relación and Chicano literature / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Discontinuous continuities: remapping the terrain of Spanish colonial narrative / Genaro Padilla -- A Franciscan mission manual: the discourse of power and social organization / Tino Villanueva -- The politics of theater in colonial New Mexico: drama and the rhetoric of conquest / Ramón Gutiérrez -- The Comedia de Adán y Eva and language acquisition: a lacanian hermeneutics of a New Mexican shepherd's play / María Herrera-Sobek -- Poetic discourse in Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México / Luis Leal -- Fray Gerónimo Boscana's Chinigchinich: an early California text in search of a context / Francisco A. …”