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- Literary El Paso
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: TCU Press
summary
The fourth in the successful literary cities series by TCU Press, Literary El Paso brings attention to the often overlooked extraordinary literary heritage of this city in far West Texas. El Paso is the largest metropolitan area along the U.S.-Mexico border and geographically isolated from the rest of Texas. It is in this splendid isolation surrounded by mountains in the midst of the beautiful Chihuahuan Desert that many award-winning writers found their literary voices. Daudistel uses her years of publishing experience in El Paso to gather the works of past, present and emerging writers of the Borderlands. Historical essays, fiction, journalism and poetry portray the colorful history and vibrant present of this city on the border through the works of sixty-three writers. Once a backdrop to the Mexican Revolution, El Paso was also home to infamous outlaws. Historians C.L. Sonnichsen, and Leon Metz write on the gunmen and lawmen of El Paso such as John Wesley Hardin, Dallas Stoudenmire and Bass Outlaw. There are feature stories from award-winning journalists Ruben Salazar early in his newspaper career, Ramon Renteria with the last interview of poet Ricardo Sanchez and Bryan Woolley on the 1966 UTEP Miners and lively South El Paso Street. Many groundbreaking Chicano writers who began their work in El Paso, such as Jose Antonio Burciaga, Abelardo Delgado, Estela Portillo Trambley and Arturo Islas are featured. The works of Tom Lea, the stories of Amado Muro, Dagoberto Gilb, Rick DeMarinis, Pat Littledog, the inimitable word sketches of Elroy Bode and the poetry of Benjamin Alire Saenz, Pat Mora, and Bernice Love Wiggins, one of the first African-American female poets published in Texas, explore the experience of life in El Paso. In addition, previously unpublished works from John Rechy, Ray Gonzalez and Robert Seltzer are included. Literary El Paso features bilingual selections for the first time in the series to reflect the bicultural environment of the region and the state.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xxiv
- Part I. Revolution at the Pass of the North: The City Emerges: La revoluci
- Carl Hertzog
- pp. 8-13
- Owen White
- pp. 14-21
- Dale L. Walker
- pp. 22-35
- Charles Leland Sonnichsen
- pp. 36-50
- Leon Claire Metz
- pp. 51-56
- Nancy Hamilton
- pp. 57-67
- W. H. Timmons
- pp. 68-80
- David Dorado Romo
- pp. 81-84
- Cynthia Farah Haines
- pp. 85-93
- Frank Mangan
- pp. 94-97
- John O.West
- pp. 98-105
- Bill Wright
- pp. 106-112
- Robert Seltzer
- pp. 113-116
- Amado Muro
- pp. 117-130
- Maceo Dailey
- pp. 131-137
- Bernice Love Wiggins
- pp. 138-141
- Mario T. Garc
- pp. 157-165
- Ruben Salazar
- pp. 166-172
- Part II. Two Countries, One River: The People: Dos pa
- Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado
- pp. 184-190
- John Rechy
- pp. 204-220
- Bryan Woolley
- pp. 221-237
- Rick DeMarinis
- pp. 238-248
- Dagoberto Gilb
- pp. 249-260
- Arturo Islas
- pp. 261-273
- Ana Castillo
- pp. 290-304
- Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- pp. 308-314
- Abraham Verghese
- pp. 315-323
- Lee Merrill Byrd
- pp. 324-335
- Estela Portillo Trambley
- pp. 336-357
- Sergio Troncoso
- pp. 358-372
- Tanya Maria Barrientos
- pp. 373-385
- Christine Granados
- pp. 386-392
- Octavio Solis
- pp. 393-405
- Daniel Chac
- pp. 406-412
- Pat LittleDog
- pp. 413-420
- Lex Williford
- pp. 421-427
- Richard Ya
- pp. 428-438
- Sheryl Luna
- pp. 439-442
- Lucy Fischer-West
- pp. 454-465
- Selfa Chew
- pp. 476-478
- Part III. This Favored Place: Este lugar favorecido
- Benjamin Alire S
- pp. 488-492
- Elroy Bode
- pp. 495-503
- Ray Gonzalez
- pp. 512-521
- Bobby Byrd
- pp. 522-528
- Leslie Ullman
- pp. 529-532
- Marian Haddad
- pp. 533-542
- Beatriz Terrazas
- pp. 543-546
- Howard McCord
- pp. 547-550
- Carolina Monsiva
- pp. 551-554
- Duane Carr
- pp. 555-556
- Robert Burlingame
- pp. 557-559
- Permissions
- pp. 560-565
Additional Information
ISBN
9780875654843
Related ISBN(s)
9780875653877
MARC Record
OCLC
794701379
Pages
600
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No