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Title Nepantla familias : an anthology of Mexican American literature on families in between worlds / edited by Sergio Troncoso
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Series Wittliff Collections literary series
Wittliff Collections literary series.
Contents Introduction / Sergio Troncoso -- Nonfiction: Here, there / David Dorado Romo -- Life as Crossing Borders / Sergio Troncoso -- Losing my Mother Tongue / Reyna Grande -- Día de Muertos / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Calle Martín de Zavala / Francisco Cantú -- The Wonder Woman T-Shirt / Rigoberto González -- In(toxic)ated Masculinity / Alex Espinoza -- Piacularis / Domingo Martinez -- All the Pretty Ponies / Oscar Cásares -- Nobody's Favorite / Lorraine M. López -- Elote Man / David Dominguez -- Paco / Stephanie Li -- The Hole in the House / Sheryl Luna -- Letter to the Student Who Asks Me How I Managed to Do It / José Antonio Rodríguez -- Poetry: The Last Time I Went to Church / José Antonio Rodríguez -- Duty / Sheryl Luna -- Self-Portrait in the Year of the Dog / Deborah Paredez -- Why You Never Get in a Fight in Elementary School / Octavio Quintanilla -- Jarcería Shop / Sandra Cisneros -- Garden of Gethsemane / Diana Marie Delgado -- You're tired of your life / Octavio Quintanilla -- The Soul / Diana Marie Delgado -- Fiction : Dutiful Daughter / Diana López -- Melancholy Baby / Severo Perez -- Mundo Means World / Octavio Solis -- Border as Womb Emptied of Night and Swallows / ire'ne lara silva -- Family Unit / Rubén Degollado -- The Surprise Trancazo / Helena María Viramontes -- Mujeres Matadas / Daniel Chacón -- The Astronaut / Matt Mendez -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Mexican American families -- Fiction
Mexican American families -- Poetry
Poetry / American / Hispanic & Latino.
Fiction / Hispanic & Latino.
Literary Collections / American.
Mexican American families
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction
Mexican-American Border Region -- Poetry
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Genre/Form Electronic books
essays.
poetry.
short stories.
Essays
Fiction
Poetry
Short stories
Essays.
Poetry.
Short stories.
Essais.
Poésie.
Nouvelles.
Form Electronic book
Author Troncoso, Sergio, 1961- editor.
ISBN 9781623499648
162349964X