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A unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and his own family.
Gilb has a forceful message for readers: there is a Mexican America, and its culture is the lifeblood of the Southwest United States, which was Mexican land until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The rest of the country, Gilb declares, does not want to know or respect the long history of Mexican America. His mission is to defend and proclaim its beauty and importance.
Ranging from accounts of research in Spain's Archivo General de Indias and the culture of farming corn in Iowa to meditations on Mexican and Mexican American writers, deconstructions of Mexican American food, and the experience of teaching students confused about their own culture and identity, these sharply observed portraits are both thought provoking and entertaining. His parent, his youth and manhood, his new disabled life, and snapshots of Mexico City and Guatemala, California, and Texas - all are unforgettable thanks to Gilb's brilliant vision and style.
Contents
Preface
A Passing West
Hurray for Losers!
A Little Bit of Fun before He Died
Thou Shalt Not Steal Books
Father Close, Father Far
A Los Cielos de México
Oily Hair con Slicked Back Notes on Greasy Literature
The Hexagon of the Conquest
The One Who Left
Border Petroglyphs
Las Milpas en Iowa
The First Resident of Belken County
We Have Been Here All Along
Remembering the Alamo
How Books Bounce
Tomato Potatoe, Chalupa Shaloopa
III
Now You Don't See Us, Still You Don't
Rivera and Rulfo
Doors in Old Guate
Hecho en Tejas
Texas Lit
La Próxima Parada Is Next
Huizache
Snow Angel
Fights
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