Nepantla familias : an anthology of Mexican American literature on families in between worlds /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2021]
Description:	245 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Wittliff Collections literary series Wittliff Collections literary series.
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican American families. Mexican American families -- In literature. Mexican Americans in literature. Group identity in literature. Group identity in literature. Literature. Mexican American families. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans in literature. Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Essays. Poetry. Short stories. Essays. Poetry. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12578745

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Other authors / contributors:	Troncoso, Sergio, 1961- editor.
ISBN:	9781623499631 1623499631 9781623499648
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds: how the authors or their characters create or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. Nepantla or living in the inbetween space of the borderland is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life: the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities. In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity. Nepantla is the quintessential American experience that revives important foundational values through immigrants and the children of immigrants. Here readers will find a glimpse of contemporary Mexican American experience; here, also, readers will experience complexities of the geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders common to us all"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Nonfiction
David Dorado Romo, "Here, There"
Sergio Troncoso, "Life as Crossing Borders"
Reyna Grande, "Losing my Mother Tongue"
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, "Día de Muertos"
Francisco Cantú, "Calle Martín de Zavala"
Rigoberto González, "The Wonder Woman T-Shirt"
Alex Espinoza, "In(toxic)ated Masculinity"
Domingo Martinez, "Piacularis"
Oscar Cásares, "All the Pretty Ponies"
Lorraine M. López, "Nobody's Favorite"
David Dominguez, "Elote Man"
Stephanie Li, "Paco"
Sheryl Luna, "The Hole in the House"
José Antonio Rodríguez, "Letter to the Student Who Asks Me How I Managed to Do It"
Poetry
José Antonio Rodríguez, "The Last Time I Went to Church"
Sheryl Luna, "Duty"
Deborah Paredez, "Self-Portrait in the Year of the Dog"
Octavio Quintanilla, "Why You Never Get in a Fight Elementary School"
Sandra Cisneros, "Jarceía Shop"
Diana Marie Delgado, "Garden of Gethsemane"
Octavio Quintanilla, "You're tired of your life,"
Diana Marie Delgado, "The Soul"
Fiction
Diana López, "Dutiful Daughter"
Severo Perez, "Melancholy Baby"
Octavio Solis, "Mundo Means World"
Ire'ne lara silva, "Border as Womb Emptied of Night and Swallows"
Ruéen Degollado, "Family Unit"
Helena Maria Viramontes, "The Surprise Trancazo"
Daniel Chacón, "Mujeres Matadas"
Matt Mendez, "The Astronaut"
About the Editor
About the Contributors

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