Daudistel uses her years of publishing experience in El Paso to gather the works of past, present, and emerging writers of the Borderlands. Historical essays, fiction, journalism, and poetry portray the colorful history and vibrant present of this city on the border through the works of sixty-three writers.
Once a backdrop to the Mexican Revolution, El Paso was also home to infamous outlaws. Historians C. L. Sonnichsen and Leon Metz write on the gunmen and lawmen of El Paso including John Wesley Hardin, Dallas Stoudenmire and Bass Outlaw. There are feature stories from award-winning journalists Ruben Salazar early in his newspaper career, Ramón Rentería with the last interview of poet Ricardo Sánchez, and Bryan Woolley on the 1966 University of Texas–El Paso Miners and lively South El Paso Street.
Many groundbreaking Chicano writers began their work in El Paso, such as José Antonio Burciaga, Abelardo Delgado, Estela Portillo Trambley, and Arturo Islas. The works of Tom Lea, Amado Muro, Dagoberto Gilb, Rick DeMarinis, Pat LittleDog, the inimitable word sketches of Elroy Bode, and the poetry of Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Pat Mora, and Bernice Love Wiggins, one of the first African American female poets published in Texas, explore the experience of life in El Paso.
In addition, previously unpublished works from John Rechy, Ray Gonzalez and Robert Seltzer are included. For the first time in the series, Literary El Paso features bilingual selections to reflect the bi-cultural environment of the region and the state.
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The latest addition to the successful literary citieis series by Texas Christian University Press, Literary El Paso brings attention to the often overlooked extraordinary literary heritage of this city in far West Texas. El Paso is the largest metropolitan area along the U.S.–Mexico border and is geographically isolated from the rest of Texas. It is in this splendid isolation surrounded by mountains in the midst of the beautiful Chihuahuan Desert that many award-winning writers found their literary voices. Literary El Paso features bilingual selections to reflect the bi-cultural environment of the region and the state.
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"In Literary El Paso, Marcia Hatfield Daudistel has assembled a treasure trove of fine writing. Stories, essays, and poems meld into a collection of rich literature that also provides a unique history of a complex, colorful, and vibrant region, El Paso del Norte." —John Rechy, author of City of Night, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, and About My Life and the Kept Woman.
"In Literary El Paso, the newest anthology in the Literary Cities series from TCU Press, there's plenty to love and linger over, and some to skim on the long drive west... If one goal of a good anthology is to inspire further reading, Literary El Paso succeeds in adding half a dozen writers to my list... It showcases the stories, poetry and fiction of the many excellent Chicano writers to come out of El Paso... Sharing one rare setting—the same desert mountains, high schools, bridges, streets, shops, two countries, one river—the stories and poems in Literary El Paso at times share a similar voice—open, honest, often irreverent." —Texas Observer
"...ultimately Literary El Paso provides what anyone looks for in such an extensive and varied collection: a montón of fun.—La Bloga
About the Author
MARCIA HATFIELD DAUDISTEL is the former associate director of Texas Western Press, where she helped publish over seventy books and established the bilingual imprint Frontera Books. She has published articles in Nova Quarterly and The American Association of University Presses Exchange. She is also a member of the first Texas Book Festival on the Road committee; member and events chair of the Friends of the University of Texas at El Paso Library Board; and a 2009 Hertzog Award committee judge. Daudistel has lived in El Paso for twenty-six years and is currently at work on her second book, Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso, for TCU Press.
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Marcia Hatfield Daudistel was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, but has made Texas her home for nearly all her adult life. She is the editor, most recently of Grace and Gumption: the Women of El Paso published by TCU Press in October 2011. She is also the editor of Literary El Paso, winner of the 2010 Southwest Book Award by the Border Regional Library Association, published by TCU Press in 2009. She is currently at work on the book Authentic Texas: the People of the Big Bend with cowriter/photographer Bill Wright.
As the former Associate Director of Texas Western Press, at the University of Texas at El Paso, founded by Carl Hertzog, she published books specializing in the history and cultures of the Southwest and established the bilingual imprint Frontera Books.
Currently, she is the West Texas/Trans Pecos Editor of Texas Books in Review. She is on the advisory committee of the Made in Texas: Cultivating Teachers to Engage Mexican American Literature in Middle and High School Classrooms project. Marcia has been named the 2012 Hertzog Lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2009 she was a presenter and in 2011 was a moderator at the Texas Book Festival. She is a member of the Friends of the University of Texas at El Paso Library Board and a 2009 Hertzog Award committee judge. She is the keynote speaker for the 2012 Women's History Month conference at the University of Texas at El Paso. El Paso has been her home for twenty-nine years.
As the former Associate Director of Texas Western Press, at the University of Texas at El Paso, founded by Carl Hertzog, she published books specializing in the history and cultures of the Southwest and established the bilingual imprint Frontera Books.
Currently, she is the West Texas/Trans Pecos Editor of Texas Books in Review. She is on the advisory committee of the Made in Texas: Cultivating Teachers to Engage Mexican American Literature in Middle and High School Classrooms project. Marcia has been named the 2012 Hertzog Lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2009 she was a presenter and in 2011 was a moderator at the Texas Book Festival. She is a member of the Friends of the University of Texas at El Paso Library Board and a 2009 Hertzog Award committee judge. She is the keynote speaker for the 2012 Women's History Month conference at the University of Texas at El Paso. El Paso has been her home for twenty-nine years.
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El Paso Treasure Trove,
This review is from: Literary El Paso (Literary Cities) (Hardcover)
With Literary El Paso, Marcia Hatfield Daudistel has truly showcased (and beautifully at that) the heart of the literary tradition from and about the most famous city on the Texas/Mexico Border. Split into three parts, a reader experiences El Paso from all angles: history, landscape, people and culture. The collection of writers is impressive (most have national and international reputations) and the variety of works; from fiction, historical non-fiction, poetry, and plays, certainly has something for every taste.I highly recommend this book to anyone with a passion for great writing about the Southwest and El Paso; a place Hatfield Daudistel poetically refers to as "This Favored Place".
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Literary El Paso more than gunfights,
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Literary El Paso is a collection of diverse writers, the pioneers of the Chicano literature movement and the current and emerging writers from the border. The book surprises and entertains the reader with powerful and surprising selections.John Rechy, Rick DeMarinis, Denise Chavez, Ana Castillo, Pat Mora and Tom Lea were among the writers I already knew. However, in this 60+ writer compilation, I was introduced to many I did not know--yet. Ruben Salazar, Arturo Islas, Ricardo Sanchez and Jose Antonio Burciaga are among the writers who were part of the Chicano Movement. Elroy Bode's selections shows the raw beauty of the El Paso landscape and what has influenced people from far and wide to make this city their home. There are bilingual selections and an untranslated poem. In a city that shares its border with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, some want to replace a river with a fence, and a fence with a wall. Whatever structure one wants to erect, the culture of El Paso is forever joined with Mexico, and yet El Paso's literary heritage is of its own exceptional people and their visions.
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