Conflicts of interest
Subtitle: the letters of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
By: edited, with a commentary, by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita.
Contributors: Sánchez, Rosaura.; Pita, Beatrice.
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 647
Subjects: Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895 -- Correspondence.; Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.; Hispanic American authors -- Correspondence.; Hispanic American women -- Correspondence.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered California nineteenth-century novelist, struggled against the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Latinos in the southwestern territories of the United States. Not only was she the first Latina novelist to write in English, but her circumstances, ambition and resolve took her into circles where relatively few women could venture.".

"Conflicts of Interest captures the complex terrain within which Ruiz de Burton moved, pulled in different directions as she was by tensions of class, race, gender, and nationality. The trajectory of Ruiz de Burton's life, as viewed through her correspondence, makes for a compelling and revealing narrative, one that brings to life the conflictive evolution of discourse and culture in the Southwest as it was becoming integrated into the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century.".

"This volume is as complete a collection of the Ruiz de Burton letters as is possible, given the lacunae of the historical record. Included with the letters are various personal and business documents and a collection of articles about Ruiz de Burton and her family. Among her correspondents were such important historical figures as Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Jose Matias Moreno, George Davidson, Samuel L. M. Barlow, E. M. Morse, Prudenciana Moreno, and Platon Vallejo.

This album is accompanied by a scholarly introduction by researchers Sanchez and Pita, who reconstitute and situate Ruiz de Burton's life and times through their analysis and commentary."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage"--P. facing t.p.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Chapter I: Baja California; title: A. Commentary; title: B. Letters and Documents: Baja and Family Background; title: 1. MARB's biography of Don Jos6 Manuel Ruiz, written for the Bancroft Project; title: 2. MARB's transcription of Don Jos6 Manuel's Letter; title: 3. Last Will and Testament of Ysabel Ruiz de Maitorena; title: 4. H. S. Burton's 1848 Letter to H. M. Naglee; title: 5. Family Trees for Ruiz, Carrillo, and Burton Families; title: Chapter II: From Baja to Monterey; title: A. Commentary; title: B. Letters and Documents (1848-1852); title: Chapter III: Early San Diego and La Frontera; title: A. Commentary; title: B. Letters and Documents (1851-1859); title: 1. MARB's Letters; title: 2. Jos6 Matias Moreno's Letters on La Frontera; title: Chapter IV: (Shifting) Frames of Reference: Southwest by East; title: A. Commentary; title: B. Letters and Documents (1859-1870); title: Chapter V: Illustrations; title: Chapter VI: Later San Diego: 1871-1895; title: A. Commentary; title: B. Letters and Documents (1870-1895); title: Chapter VII: Narratives of Negative Identification; title: A. Commentary; title: B. Documents:; title: 1. Book Reviews; title: 2. Articles; title: 3. Lower California Mining Company Brochure; title: 4. Obituaries; title: 5. MARB's petition as heir of H. S. Burton,; title: her pension request, and other documents; title: 6. Pio Pico's Deed to Jamul Ranch; title: 7. Isabel Ruiz de Maytorena's suit against MARB; title: 8. New York Times article on Ensenada; title: Unpublished References; title: Index to Letters; title: by Date; title: by Chapter; title: by Addressee/Sender.