Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of by Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón
By Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón
In his books The nice Plains, The nice Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created a permanent snapshot of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with "savage" Indians and Mexicans. So renowned was once Webb's imaginative and prescient that it inspired generations of historians and artists in all media and successfully silenced the counter-narratives that Mexican American writers and historians have been at the same time generating to assert their status as "gente decente," humans of worth.
These counter-narratives shape the topic of Leticia M. Garza-Falcón's examine. She explores how in demand writers of Mexican descent-such as Jovita González, Américo Paredes, María Cristina Mena, Fermina Guerra, Beatriz de l. a. Garza, and Helena María Viramontes -have used literature to answer the dominative heritage of the us, which provided retrospective justification for expansionist regulations within the Southwest and South Texas. Garza-Falcón indicates how those counter-narratives catch a physique of data and event excluded from "official" histories, whose "facts" frequently emerged extra from literary recommendations than from goal research of historic data.
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