Critical Storytelling from the Borderlands

En La Línea
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52114-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Critical Storytelling

From this set of critical stories emerges a timely confession from marginalized imagined communities at the physical and metaphorical Mexican-American border. These hybrid storytellers create a multivalence of experiences and genres. Composers of this ground-breaking collection draw readers into an affective connection with the borderlands, offering critical examinations of legal status, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, social class, family, and health. Additionally, creative representations across genres explore notions of geography, vulnerability, suffering, trauma, pain as well as joy, healing, and love. By posing questions about loss of innocence, they incite new literary and visual spaces for fusing together fragments of the remains of land, body, and/or being, all the while creating a site of fresh confessions where critical stories are illuminated collages assembled together from within la línea.

Contributors are: Kiri Avelar, Irving Ayala, Carmella J. Braniger, Roxana Fragoso Carrillo, Marisa V. Cervantes, Guadalupe Chavez, Julio Enríquez-Ornelas, Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, Verónica Gaona, Andrea Gómez, Filiberto Mares Hernández, Víctor M. Macías-González, Carol Mariano, Ana Silvia Monzón Monterroso, Juana Moriel-Payne, Rachel Neff, Jumko Ogata-Aguilar, José Olivarez, Isabela Ortega, Paul Pedroza, Jorge Omar Ramírez Pimienta, Raphaella Prange, Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla, Erica Reyes, Fidel García Reyes, Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana and Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Braniger, Carmella J.

Enríquez-Ornelas, Julio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Carmella J. Braniger and Julio A. Enríquez-Ornelas

PART 1: En La Línea

1 Remember, Roots Still Grow Beneath: Learning from Conscious Transfronteriza/o/x Trauma

Liliana Conlisk Gallegos

2 Field Notes from the Borderlands: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and Travel

Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez

3 The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project: Digital Storytelling, Portraiture and U.S.-Mexico Border Art

Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana

4 Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1970–1980

Víctor M. Macías-González

PART 2: Wild Tongues

5 Criterion Number 3: Unstable Sense of Self; ca. 1993

Paul Pedroza

6 Regresando a Casa

Jumko Ogata

7 “Me, Foreign Woman”

Andrea Gómez

8 Liminality

Rachel Neff

9 Two Poems

Ana Silvia Monzón Monterroso

PART 3: Thin Edge of Barbwire

10 Welcome to Colonia Libertad, 2007–to Date & From Album of Fences

Jorge Omar Ramírez Pimienta

11 Salamandra

Filiberto Mares Hernández

12 “Heart of the Borderland (Corazón Fronterizo)” & “La Rosa de El Paso”

Isabela Ortega

13 “My Friends from Work”

Fidel García Reyes

14 Las casas y nosotros

Verónica Gaona

14 Las casas y nosotros

Verónica Gaona

15 “I Am Enough”

Erica Reyes

PART 4: Shadow Beast

16 That’s Not My Name: A Journey of Reclamation

Marisa V. Cervantes

17 Esta puente/mi espalda: Interseccionalidad entre feminismo y chicanismo

Roxana Fragoso Carrillo

18 Two Poems & A Story

Juana Moriel-Payne

19 Cilantro Taconeo, Manos de Maiz, Texas Masa & Ruido

Kiri Avelar

20 Shadow Series

Carol Mariano

PART 5: Writing as a Sensuous Act

21 “when i say diaspora”

José Olivarez

22 La mujer de papa, arroz y yuca

Lina Paredes Espitia

23 Hecho a Mano, “Made by Hand”

Raphaella Prange

24 La Chip Truck

Felipe Quetzal

25 xxx

Julio Enríquez-Ornelas

Epilog: Coloniality Incarnate: Conversational Assemblage with Liliana
Conlisk Gallegos, Omar Pimenta & Julio Enríquez-Ornelas

Carmella Braniger

Über Autor(innen)

Carmella J. Braniger, Ph.D. (2003), Oklahoma State University, is Professor of English at Millikin University. She has published poems, chapbooks, and critical stories, and edited four volumes of Critical Storytelling since 2017.

Julio Enríquez-Ornelas, Ph.D. (2014), University of California, is an Associate Professor at Millikin University. His work on Latin American and Latinx Studies appears in Prose Studies, Hispania, Journal of the MMLA, Textos Híbridos, Alchemy: Journal of Translation, El BeisMan, and Suburbano.