Preface / David William Foster
Pre-Columbian literatures / Joanna O'Connell
The colonial period / Lee H. Dowling
Romanticism / Margarita Vargas
Nineteenth-century prose fiction / Mario Martín-Flores
Modernism / Bart L. Lewis
Twentieth-century poetry / Adriana García
Twentieth-century theater / Kirsten F. Nigro
Twentieth-century fiction / Lanin A. Gyurko
The essay / Martin S. Stabb
Literary theory and criticism / Daniel Altamiranda
Literary reviews : a bibliographical essay / Luis H. Peña
Mexican and Mexican American literary relations / Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez.
