Description - A Story of Stories from a Texas Border Barrio: The Life and Writings of Ramona Gonzlez by Cristina Devereaux Ramrez
- Releasing for Hispanic Heritage Month
- Writings celebrate the richness of the Mexican American voice of Chihuahuita, identified by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016 as one of America's Most Endangered Historic Places
- Gonzlez is from the El Paso border barrio of Chihuahuita, called the Ellis Island of the Southwest and ground zero for border literary lore
- West Texas/Mexico border folklore and literary history; Mexican American studies; women's studies; border studies; Texas history; Texas literary history
- Writing collected from more than 750 typewritten pages of Spanish and English poems, short stories, fables, and dichos by Ramona Gonzlez (19061995)
- Spanning four decades, Gonzlez's writings capture a rich yet mostly unpublished heritage of West Texas/Mexico border folklore and literary history, bilingual Spanish. English originally written mostly in Spanish
- Three-generation family project: writer Ramona Gonzlez; son-in-law Neil J. Devereaux, translator of her writings; and granddaughter Cristina Devereaux Ramrez, editor and historian
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