Who Would Have Thought It? (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)

Fiction. Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT? (1872) is a historical romance which engages the dominant myths about nationality, race and gender prevalent in society in the United States prior to and during the Civil War. The narrative follows a young Mexican girl as she is delivered from Indian captivity in the Southwest and comes to live in the household of a New England family. Culture and perspectives on national history and identity clash as the novel criticizes the dominant society's opportunism and hypocrisy, and indicts northern racism.Rosaura Sanchez is the author of 'Who Would Have Thought It? (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)', published 1995 under ISBN 9781558850811 and ISBN 1558850813.