{"product_id":"nepantla-familias-an-anthology-of-mexican-american-literature-on-families-in-between-worlds-paperback-softback-9781648432682","title":"Nepantla Familias; An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in Between Worlds (Paperback \/ softback) 9781648432682","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNepantla Familias\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in Between Worlds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSergio Troncoso (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781648432682\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e262 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Such a window, such an ax, into the hard, human struggles of writers, sisters and brothers here — resolving, harmonizing and perhaps, simply just telling their Nepantlas. These lives in-between bridges of culture, of gender, of memory and presence, invisibility and courage, of raped bodies on the precipice of healing and wholeness, of speaking versus silence, of shame in-between wholeness, of big time university life then riding back to Segundo Barrio DNA. And of mothers drifting and daughters blazing in the Now. Each page, a revelation. Each story, a valley of tears and a mountain of triumph. This Nepantla Familia will tear your heart open. You will finally get to feel like a human being. You will have humanity in your hands. One of a kind, I thank Troncoso for this anthology — I bow before these writers of truth and love. A mega-ground-crackling and life expanding house of diamonds.\"—Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the USA, Emeritus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anthologies are snapshots of specific cultural moments and this one by Sergio Troncoso comes at a time of anti-immigrant sentiment and ideological polarization. As is clear from these rewarding pages, we Mexican-Americans have ancestral knowledge about that fracture. But we don't panic. Instead, we first build bridges and then cross them because we know that a life divided is, in fact, incommensurably rewarding. Kudos to the contributors for their courage to put the pieces of the bridge together.\"—Ilan Stavans, author of \u003ci\u003ePopol Vuh: A Retelling\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bursting with a broad range of high-quality essays, poems and short stories, Nepantla Familias offers the reader a full banquet of modern Mexican American writings on spiritual, psychological, and international borderland experiences. These award-winning writers explore the Aztec concept of Nepantla, life on a philosophical borderland that describes not only the mestizo conundrum but the reality of every human being open to the contradictions and conflicts of their own uniqueness.\"—Carmen Tafolla, State Poet Laureate of Texas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Open this book, trace the seam with your fingertips, caress the page, and let the words linger on your lips; let them lead you to Nepantla, where we dare and dance and delight and dream and wait as we always have. What a beautiful collection! I loved it.\"—Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Stars Denied\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSummer of the Mariposas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e2021 Texas Book Festival Featured Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bronze Medal for Anthologies, Independent Publisher Book Awards 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNepantla Familias\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eNepantla\u003c\/i\u003e—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. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNepantla Familias\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Includes the work of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e David Dorado Romo\u003cbr\u003e Reyna Grande\u003cbr\u003e Francisco CantÚ\u003cbr\u003e Rigoberto GonzÁlez\u003cbr\u003e Alex Espinoza\u003cbr\u003e Domingo Martinez\u003cbr\u003e Oscar CÁsares\u003cbr\u003e Lorraine M. 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