Crossing borders : personal essays / Sergio Troncoso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troncoso, Sergio, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Troncoso, Sergio, 1961-.

Troncoso, Sergio.

Troncoso, Sergio, 1961---Family.

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Families.

Mexican American authors--Biography.

Mexican American authors.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Interfaith marriage--United States.

Interfaith marriage.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, [2011]

Summary:

In the 16 personal essays collected here, Troncoso (author of the award-winning The Last Tortilla and Other Stories) reflects on the physical, cultural, linguistic, and intellectual borders he has crossed in his life. Troncoso, a Harvard graduate, was raised in a poor Mexican-American family on the Mexican border in Texas. He writes of Latino identity, coping with his wife's illness, raising his sons, his relationship with his own father, and accepting his wife's Jewish heritage. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Crossing Borders 1

Literature and Migration 5

Fresh Chaliah 11

Part 1 Letter to my Young Sons 21

Part 2 Letter to my Young Sons 39

Part 3 Letter to my Young Sons 57

A Day Without Ideas 73

Latinos Find an America on the Border of Acceptance 75

The Father Is in the Details 81

Terror and Humanity 93

Trapped 97

Apostate of my Literary Family 109

This Wicked Patch of Dust 125

Chico Lingo Days 139

Finding our Voice: From Literacy to Literature 169

Why Should Latinos Write their Own Stories 193.

ISBN:

9781558857100

1558857109

OCLC:

713181454