- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
-
Introduction The Descendants -
Prologue Nepantla -
Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands -
1 The Miracle Tree -
2 The Rebel -
3 The Venerable -
4 The Activist and the Ordinance -
5 The Bonder and the Dealer -
6 The Agents -
7 The Wall -
8 The Chokepoint -
9 The Woman in the Woods -
10 The Healing -
Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands -
11 The Sort of Homecoming -
12 The Trade -
13 The War -
14 The Saint -
15 The Activist and the Obelisk -
16 The Movement -
17 The Mother Tongue -
18 The Bridge -
19 The River -
20 The Words That Come Before All Else -
Epilogue The United States of In-between - Acknowledgments
- About the Author
Nepantla
Nepantla
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Prologue Nepantla
- Source:
- All the Agents and Saints
- Author(s):
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
After a decade of nomadism, the author returns home to her native South Texas and discovers her homeland has turned into a death valley in her absence, poisoned by petrochemical industries, ravaged by the drug war, and soon to be barricaded by a steel wall. The concept of “nepantla” is introduced as the way Aztecs described their struggle to reconcile their indigenous ways with the one Spanish colonizers forced upon them in the sixteenth century. More recently, Tejana writer Gloria Anzaldua described nepantla as a metaphor for a “birthing stage where you feel like you’re reconfiguring your identity and don’t know where you are.”
Keywords: Nepantla, South Texas, Tejano, Corpus Christi, Texas, Chicana/o identity, borderland, King Ranch, Gloria Anzaldua, undocumented worker, border wall
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
-
Introduction The Descendants -
Prologue Nepantla -
Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands -
1 The Miracle Tree -
2 The Rebel -
3 The Venerable -
4 The Activist and the Ordinance -
5 The Bonder and the Dealer -
6 The Agents -
7 The Wall -
8 The Chokepoint -
9 The Woman in the Woods -
10 The Healing -
Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands -
11 The Sort of Homecoming -
12 The Trade -
13 The War -
14 The Saint -
15 The Activist and the Obelisk -
16 The Movement -
17 The Mother Tongue -
18 The Bridge -
19 The River -
20 The Words That Come Before All Else -
Epilogue The United States of In-between - Acknowledgments
- About the Author
