Nepantla Familias Nepantla Familias
Wittliff Collections Literary Series

Nepantla Familias

An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds

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Publisher Description

"A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

2021 Texas Book Festival Featured Book


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 in-between 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.

Edited by award-winning writer and scholar Sergio Troncoso, this anthology includes works from familiar and acclaimed voices such as David Dorado Romo, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Espinoza, Reyna Grande, and Francisco Cantú, as well as from important new voices, such as Stephanie Li, David Dominguez, and ire’ne lara silva. These are writers who open and expose the in-between places: through or at borders; among the past, present, and future; from tradition to innovation; between languages; in gender; about the wounds of the past and the victories of the present; of life and death.

Nepantla Familias shows 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.

Includes the work of

David Dorado Romo
Reyna Grande
Francisco Cantú
Rigoberto González
Alex Espinoza
Domingo Martinez
Oscar Cásares
Lorraine M. López
David Dominguez
Stephanie Li
Sheryl Luna
José Antonio Rodríguez
Deborah Paredez
Diana Marie Delgado
Diana López
Severo Perez
Octavio Solis
ire'ne lara silva
Rubén Degollado
Helena María Viramontes
Daniel Chacón
Matt Mendez

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
April 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
262
Pages
PUBLISHER
Texas A&M University Press
SELLER
Texas A&M University
SIZE
2.9
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