Cristina Devereaux Ramírez is an associate professor of English and director of the rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English graduate program at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1887–1942, which won the 2016 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Prize, and the coeditor, with Jessica Enoch, of Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1875–1922. She lives in Tucson.
Table of Contents
Prologue 4
Introduction 10
Chapter One
A Trenza of Voices 16
Chapter Two
Un cuento de cuentos: A Story of Stories 33
Chapter Three
Recovering the Fading History of a Far West Texas Border Barrio:
Chihauhuita 60
Cuentos del barrio: Stories from the barrio, Part I 87
Por vida de estas santas cruces yo viví en estos barrios
by Ramona González 89
By the life of these holy crosses I lived in these barrios
English translation by Neil Devereaux 139
Chapter Four
González Grocery: El corazón del barrio 192
Cuentos del barrio: Stories from the barrio, Part II 204
Mi Tiendita by Ramona González 206
My Little Store English translation by Neil Devereaux 246
Chapter Five
Doña Ramona’s Barrio Literacy: Poems and Fables for Children 288
El Sol (The Sun)
293
El vuelo (The Flight)
295
El Pájaro Cenzontle y e1 Conde (The Mocking Bird and the Count) 296
Acknowledgements 299
Bibliography 300
Notes
305
Prologue
