Marie Theresa Hernández is Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston.

"This book is sui generis. In thirty-five years as a scholar, I have read nothing like it... [We] will study it for years to come as a possible model for new ways of approaching and telling the past." Robert A. Rosenstone, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology

• Introduction Part One. History Chapter I. Don Gregorio Tijerina Chapter II. Before and after History Part Two. Landscape and Narrative Chapter III. Finding Alvarado Chapter IV. Spaces In-between Part Three. Ethnographic Imaginaries Chapter V. A Place of Origins Chapter VI. The Mystic and the Fantastic Part Four. Locations of the RÉel Chapter VII. The Discourse of Illusion Chapter VIII. Inquisition Chapter IX. La Sultana Chapter X. La Joya: The House on Arreola Conclusion. Delirio: The Finality of Pragmatics Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Marie Theresa Hernández is Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston.

"This book is sui generis. In thirty-five years as a scholar, I have read nothing like it... [We] will study it for years to come as a possible model for new ways of approaching and telling the past." Robert A. Rosenstone, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology

• Introduction Part One. History Chapter I. Don Gregorio Tijerina Chapter II. Before and after History Part Two. Landscape and Narrative Chapter III. Finding Alvarado Chapter IV. Spaces In-between Part Three. Ethnographic Imaginaries Chapter V. A Place of Origins Chapter VI. The Mystic and the Fantastic Part Four. Locations of the RÉel Chapter VII. The Discourse of Illusion Chapter VIII. Inquisition Chapter IX. La Sultana Chapter X. La Joya: The House on Arreola Conclusion. Delirio: The Finality of Pragmatics Notes Selected Bibliography Index