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Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest. Until recently, little attention has been paid to the writing of the women included in this study. As Kabalen de Bichara notes, it is precisely such historical exclusion of texts written by Mexican American women that gives particular significance to the reexamination of the five autobiographical works that provide the focus for this in-depth study.?Early Life and Education? and Dew on the Thorn by Jovita González (1904?83), deal with life experiences in Texas and were likely written between 1926 and the 1940s; both texts were published in 1997. Romance of a Little Village Girl, first published in 1955, focuses on life in New Mexico, and was written by Cleofas Jaramillo (1878?1956) when the author was in her seventies. A Beautiful, Cruel Country, by Eva Antonio Wilbur-Cruce (1904?98), introduces the reader to history and a way of life that developed in the cultural space of Arizona. Created over a ten-year period, this text was published in 1987, just eleven years before the author?s death. Hoyt Street, by Mary Helen Ponce (b. 1938), began as a research paper during the period of the autobiographer?s undergraduate studies (1974?80), and was published in its present form in 1993. These border autobiographies can be understood as attempts on the part of the Mexican American female autobiographers to put themselves into the text and thus write their experiences into existence.--Amazon.com.

American fiction --- American prose literature --- Autobiography --- Biographical fiction, American --- Biographical fiction, American. --- Group identity in literature. --- Mexican American women authors --- Mexican American women in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Mexican American authors --- History and criticism. --- Mexican American authors. --- Women authors --- Women authors. --- History and criticism --- Biography --- Jaramillo, Cleofas M. --- Mireles, Jovita González, --- Ponce, Mary Helen. --- Wilbur-Cruce, Eva Antonia. --- Southwest, New.

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Uncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity In the first ever book-length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U.S. Mexican War and the year of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first organized conference on women’s rights in the United States. These concurrent events signaled new ways of thinking about U.S. citizenship, and placing these historical moments into conversation with the archive of Mexican American print culture, Varon offers an expanded temporal frame for Mexican Americans as long-standing participants in U.S. national projects. Pulling from a wide-variety of familiar and lesser-known works—from fiction and newspapers to government documents, images, and travelogues—Varon illustrates how Mexican Americans during this period envisioned themselves as U.S. citizens through cultural depictions of manhood. Before Chicano reveals how manhood offered a strategy to disparate Latino communities across the nation to imagine themselves as a cohesive whole—as Mexican Americans—and as political agents in the U.S. Though the Civil Rights Movement is typically recognized as the origin point for the study of Latino culture, Varon pushes us to consider an intellectual history that far predates the late twentieth century, one that is both national and transnational. He expands our framework for imagining Latinos’ relationship to the U.S. and to a past that is often left behind.

Citizenship --- Mexican Americans --- History --- Ethnic identity --- United States. --- Adolfo Carrillo. --- America First. --- American citizenship. --- American democratic individualism. --- American literature. --- American political history. --- Américo Paredes. --- Bracero Program. --- Catarino Garza. --- Charles Lummis. --- Chicano movement. --- Chicano. --- Donald Trump and immigration. --- Gertrude Atherton. --- Josefina Niggli. --- José Antonio Villarreal. --- Jovita Gonzalez. --- Juan Nepomuceno Cortina. --- Latino Studies. --- Latino culture. --- Latino identity. --- Manuel Cabeza de Baca. --- Mexican American bandit. --- Mexican American war. --- Mexican American. --- Mexican Revolution. --- Monterrey. --- México de afuera. --- Spanish fantasy heritage. --- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. --- U.S. citizenship. --- Vicente Silva. --- Woodrow Wilson. --- World War I. --- expatriate. --- immigrant labor. --- immigration. --- manhood and masculinity. --- nationalism. --- racialization. --- sexuality. --- transnationalism. --- xenophobia.