María Ruiz de Burton
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María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (July 3, 1832 – August 12, 1895) was the first female Mexican-American writer to be published in English. During her career, she published two books: Who Would Have Thought It? (1872) and The Squatter and the Don (1885); and one play: Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts: Taken From Cervantes' Novel of That Name (1876).
María Ruiz de Burton | |
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Born | María Amparo Maytorena Ruiz (1832-07-03)July 3, 1832 Loreto, Baja California |
Died | August 12, 1895(1895-08-12) (aged 63) Chicago, Illinois |
Occupation | Writer, political instigator |
Nationality | Mexican American |
Citizenship | American |
Spouse | Henry S. Burton |
Ruiz de Burton's work is considered to be one of the first instances of Mexican-American literature, and gives the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted full rights of citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was a marginalized national minority.[1] Her background provided her a critical distance from the New England Protestant culture into which she was brought by her marriage to her husband, a powerful and influential Protestant Union Army General, Henry S. Burton. Her life took her from coast to coast in the United States, which provided her with opportunity for first-hand observation of the U.S., its westward expansion, the American Civil War, and its aftermath. This vantage point and her status as a woman provided her with both an insider's and outsider's perspective on issues of ethnicity, power, gender, class, and race.[1]