Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection)

by Dagoberto Gilb (Editor)

Other authors: Gloria Anzaldua (Contributor), Cecilia Balli (Contributor), Gregg Barrios (Contributor), Roy Benavidez (Contributor), Chingo Bling (Contributor) — 82 more, Aristeo Brito (Contributor), Jose Antonio Burciaga (Contributor), Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Contributor), Laura Canales (Contributor), Tonantzin Canestaro-Garcia (Contributor), Norma Cantu (Contributor), Reyes Cardenas (Contributor), Servando Cardenas (Contributor), Oscar Casares (Contributor), Rosemary Catacalos (Contributor), Sandra Cisneros (Contributor), Conjunto Aztlan (Contributor), Juan Nepomuceno Cortina (Contributor), Carlos Cumpian (Contributor), Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Contributor), Angela de Hoyos (Contributor), Nephtali de Leon (Contributor), Abelardo Delgado (Contributor), Tony Diaz (Contributor), Alejandro Escovedo (Contributor), Freddy Fender (Contributor), Roberta Fernandez (Contributor), Rosita Fernandez (Contributor), Lionel G. Garcia (Contributor), Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo (Contributor), Randy Garibay (Contributor), Daniel Garza (Contributor), David Garza (Contributor), Dagoberto Gilb (Contributor), Tammy Gomez (Contributor), Genaro Gonzalez (Contributor), Jovita Gonzalez (Contributor), Ray Gonzalez (Contributor), Christine Granados (Contributor), Grupo Fantasma (Contributor), Erasmo Guerra (Contributor), Fermina Guerra (Contributor), Jose Angel Gutierrez (Contributor), Elva Trevino Hart (Contributor), Macarena Hernandez (Contributor), Rolando Hinojosa (Contributor), Tish Hinojosa (Contributor), Arturo Islas (Contributor), Santiago Jimenez Jr (Contributor), Santiago Jimenez Sr (Contributor), Flaco Jimenez (Contributor), Esteban Steve Jordan (Contributor), La Sombra (Contributor), Little Joe (Contributor), Arturo Longoria (Contributor), Felix Longoria (Contributor), Diana Lopez (Contributor), Sheryl Luna (Contributor), Manuel Luis Martinez (Contributor), Max Martinez (Contributor), Lydia Mendoza (Contributor), Jose Montalvo (Contributor), Pat Mora (Contributor), Amado Muro (Contributor), Josefina Niggli (Contributor), Roberto Ontiveros (Contributor), Sunny Ozuna (Contributor), Americo Paredes (Contributor), Roberto Pulido (Contributor), Ruben Ramas (Contributor), John Rechy (Contributor), Tomas Rivera (Contributor), Benjamin Alire Saenz (Contributor), Ruben Salazar (Contributor), Raul R. Salinas (Contributor), Ricardo Sanchez (Contributor), John Phillip Santos (Contributor), Juan Seguin (Contributor), Selena (Contributor), Chelo Silva (Contributor), Octavio Solis (Contributor), Carmen Tafolla (Contributor), Estella Portillo Trambley (Contributor), sergio troncoso (Contributor), Evangelina Vigil-Pinon (Contributor), Tino Villanueva (Contributor), Richard Yanez (Contributor)

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Once an independent nation, Texas has always been proud of its unique culture. The literature of the Lone Star State has long attracted local, regional, and national audiences and critics, yet the state's Mexican American voices have yet to receive the attention they deserve. Hecho en Tejas is a historic anthology that establishes the canon of Mexican American literature in Texas. With close to one hundred selections chosen, the book reaches back to the sixteenth-century exploration narrative of Texas's first Spanish-speaking writer, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. It features prose by Américo Paredes and Jovita Gonzalez, Rolando Hinojosa and Tomás Rivera, Estela Trambley Portillo, and Sandra Cisneros. Among the poets included in the anthology are Ricardo Sánchez, Carmen Tafolla, Angela de Hoyos, and Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado. Hecho en Tejas also includes corridos from the turn of the century and verses sung by music legends such as Lydia Mendoza and Santiago Jimenez, Sr., Freddy Fender, and Selena. In addition to these established names, already known across the United States, Hecho en Tejas introduces such younger writers as Christine Granados, Erasmo Guerra, and Tonantzin Canestaro-Garcia, the famous Tejano authors of tomorrow. In assembling this canonic reader, Dagoberto Gilb has created more than an anthology. Read cover to cover, Hecho en Tejas becomes not only a literary showcase, but also a cultural and historical narrative both for those familiar with Texas Mexicans and for outsiders. Hecho en Tejas is a mosaic portrait of the community, the land and its history, its people's sorrows and joys, anger and humor and pride, what has been assimilated and what will not be.… (more)