Cuando México se re(apropia) de Texas: Ensayos = When Mexico Recaptures Texas: Essays

Cuando México se re(apropia) de Texas: Ensayos = When Mexico Recaptures Texas: Essays

  • Author: Boullosa, Carmen
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558858060
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518500657
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2015
  • Pages: 128

Residents on both sides of the Río Grande, or the Río Bravo as it’s known in Mexico, have suffered horrific violence as numerous peoples have sought control of the land. In 1836, in what is now Texas, a young girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches who behaved “like vengeful drug dealers,” spearing, scalping and castrating their victims. Spared death, she was adopted by the tribe, only to be “saved” twenty years later by the Texas Rangers. Today, kidnappings continue in Mexico.
In this wide-ranging collection of 29 essays, internationally renowned Mexican novelist and essayist Carmen Boullosa explores issues that unite and separate Americans and Mexicans, from the nineteenth century to the present. Themes of greed and barbarism abound. There’s Dimaso Salazar, a Mexican captain who in 1841 strung the ears of fallen Texans on a necklace; Susana Chávez, a poet and activist brutally murdered after protesting the killings of women in Ciudad Juárez; and Edelmiro Cavazos, the mayor of the city of Santiago, who was executed during Mexico’s ruthless drug wars. Violence is still common on both sides of the border.
These thought-provoking essays delve into a variety of subjects, including Occupy Wall Street and Arizona’s political offensive against immigrants. Long a feminist, Boullosa also shares her perspective on women’s rights, musing on the repression of women artists and the lack of recognition for their work. Similarly, women who participated in wars and rebellions have been forgotten, and the author asserts that erasing them from our memory hurts us all. Containing the author’s original Spanish and Nicolás Kanellos’ English translation, these are absorbing reflections on Texas-Mexico border history, women’s issues, art and literature.

Edición bilingüe

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contenido / Table of contents
  • Secuestros
  • Linchamientos y mexicanos
  • Violencias
  • El oro blanco de Tamaulipas
  • Se vende un gallego, se matan mexicanos
  • La manca de Juárez
  • Evas texanas
  • Wall Street, la estrella cercana de Bettina
  • Cuando Texas se (re)apropia de México
  • El sueño mexicano
  • El motín de los chamacos de Arizona
  • Cabellos comanches de Arizona
  • El francés que defendió México
  • Sueños de chicle
  • Lágrimas y combate
  • Curación a balazos
  • Espuelas y guayaberas
  • Glorias (y penas) nacionales
  • Dos para un duelo
  • Cuatro poetas solteros guadalupanos
  • Bolívar y Sor Juana, tal vez
  • Mary Cassatt y Edgar Degas
  • La batalla de las vírgenes (la Guadalupana contra Remedios)
  • La pintora y el fotógrafo
  • Papeles quemados
  • Tortillas envenenadas y barcos insurgentes
  • La cangrejo sufragista y su Virginia
  • La amante más dulce
  • La autora de la odisea, y las olvidadas
  • Title page
  • Kidnapping
  • Lynching and Mexicans
  • Types of Violence
  • The White Gold in Tamaulipas
  • Sell the Galicians, Kill the Mexicans
  • The One-Armed Woman of Juárez
  • Texan Eves
  • Wall Street, the Star Nearby Bettina
  • When Mexico Recaptures Texas
  • The Mexican Dream
  • A Children’s Riot in Arizona
  • Comanche Hairs
  • The Frenchman Who Defended Mexico
  • Dreams of Gum
  • Tears and Combat
  • Healing with Bullet Wounds
  • Spurs and Guayaberas
  • National Glories (and Pain)
  • Two for a Duel
  • Four Bachelor Poets Devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe
  • Bolívar and Sor Juana, Perhaps
  • Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
  • The Battle of the Virgins: Guadalupe versus Remedios
  • The Painter and the Photographer
  • Burnt Papers
  • Poisoned Tortillas and Rebel Ships
  • The Suffragette Crab and Her Virginia
  • The Sweetest Lover
  • The Female Author of the Odyssey, and the other forgotten ones

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