Constructing the Criollo Archive

Acknowledgments

xvii Acknowledgments Acknowledgments I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all those people without whose criticisms, guidance, help, and observations this book would have been impossible. I would like to thank, in particular , John Beverley, Paul Bové,Antonio and Cristina Cornejo Polar, Gerald Martin, Mabel Moraña, and Juan ZevallosAguilar. I would also like to thank Andrea Junguito for her assistance in preparing the index. I would like to express my thanks to the editors and staff at Purdue University Press for the interest they have shown in this study and the excellent work they have done in helping see it through to publication. Chapter 1 appeared in a much earlier form as “Sobre la construcci ón del archivo criollo: el Aprilis Dialogus y el proyecto de la Bibliotheca Mexicana,” Revista iberoamericana 172–73 (1995): 573–89. Parts of chapter 2 appeared as “La Bibliotheca Mexicana: hacia una poética de la legitimidad criolla,” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 43–44 (1996): 77–87. I thank the editors of Revista iberoamericana and Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana for permission to reproduce my revised versions of those essays. ...