Hecho En Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature by Gilb Dagoberto
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- ISBN: 0826341268
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Pub. Date: November 2007
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Gilb has created more than a literary anthology—this is a mosaic of the cultural and historical stories of Texas Mexican writers, musicians, and artists.
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Dagoberto Gilb spent sixteen years working as a construction worker, twelve as a highrise carpenter with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. He is the author of The Magic of Blood (University of New Mexico Press), which won the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award and was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, Woodcuts of Women, and Gritos, which was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers' Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, Harper's, and The Best American Essays. His latest novel, The Flowers, is due out at the end of the year. Born in Los Angeles, he made his home for many years in El Paso and now lives in Austin, Texas.
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A required textbook turns into a pleasure readby Jess88sanmiguel
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11/12/2008: While I despise being told what to read and when to read it for college English, This was the best choice of a mandatory read because now I pick up the book to read what others of my culture write like. This book opened my eyes to my culture and taught me more then I could learn from any other book I have ever had to read about other people telling me about m culture. Here in this book it was people from culture telling me their experiences or others experiences and how they handled them. This collection of works showed me that you have to be proud of your heritage and to write what you know because that creates some of the best stories and writings. That writing from experience can only bring out the best in a person and can only help a person to grow.
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