Abstract
Recent scholarship on Gaspar Perez de Villagrâ underlines the importance of his seventeenth-century epic poem, Historia de la Nueva Mexico, to both the study of Hispanic colonial literature and as a precursor to twentieth-century Chicana/o writings. This study explores a continuum in Hispanic letters in the U.S. Southwest, based on the fact that Perez de Villagra was a Criollo and not a Spaniard and certainly not an early Chicano. Any comparisons between modem Chicana/o writings and Perez de Villagra's 1610 poem must take into consideration his status in the New World as a Criollo for it determined how his fate compared to Alvar N´unez Cabeza de Vaca's-who was rewarded for his service to the Spanish Crown-as well as the content ofhis poem which emulates other epic poems from the same period such as La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Z´uniga.
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