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Book SynopsisFrom 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
