5/22/2023 0 Comments The space between worlds summary![]() ![]() In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity.Įdited by award-winning writer and scholar Sergio Troncoso, this anthology includes works from familiar and acclaimed voices such as David Dorado Romo, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Espinoza, Reyna Grande, and Francisco Cantú, as well as from important new voices, such as Stephanie Li, David Dominguez, and ire’ne lara silva. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life-the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities. Nepantla-or living in the in-between space of the borderland-is the focus of this anthology. ![]() Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds-how the authors or their characters create, or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. ![]()
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