Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle

By Pat Mora

Book Overview

As a Chicana, educator, poet, mother, lecturer, and native of El Paso, Texas, Pat Mora is a denizen of nepantla--a Nahuatl word meaning land in the middle. In her first collection of essays this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826314546
• ISBN13: 9780826314543
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Beyond Borders: Writing the Middle Space

I found Pat Mora's volume of essays after graduation from high school in 1993. The essays are reader-friendly, but demand reflection and action to come into consciousness. I had never read personal essays, especially prose that addressed issues of cultural conservation, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the naming of middle spaces and realities.The essays merit reading and careful reflection. I admit that I return to the essays often, because they read with immediacy and offer encouragement, hope. A few essays are meditative and stretch from the United States to countries such as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Pakistan among others. Pat Mora, as a U.S. writer of Mexican origin, crosses spaces and borders to commune through language, culture, and critical consciousness.