Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands by Gilb, Dagoberto
Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands by Gilb, Dagoberto

Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands

Winner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west, the Chicano...
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Author: Dagoberto Gilb
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Language: English
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Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands by Gilb, Dagoberto

Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands

$25.54
Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands by Gilb, Dagoberto

Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands

$25.54
Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Winner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west, the Chicano movement, by one of its founders.

Winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

A unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and his own family.

Gilb has a forceful message for readers: there is a Mexican America, and its culture is the lifeblood of the Southwest United States, which was Mexican land until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The rest of the country, Gilb declares, does not want to know or respect the long history of Mexican America. His mission is to defend and proclaim its beauty and importance.

Ranging from accounts of research in Spain's Archivo General de Indias and the culture of farming corn in Iowa to meditations on Mexican and Mexican American writers, deconstructions of Mexican American food, and the experience of teaching students confused about their own culture and identity, these sharply observed portraits are both thought provoking and entertaining. His parents, his youth and manhood, his new disabled life, and snapshots of Mexico City and Guatemala, California, and Texas--all are unforgettable thanks to Gilb's brilliant vision and style.

Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 09/01/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780826368904

About the Author
Dagoberto Gilb is the author of three books from UNM Press, The Magic of Blood, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the anthology Hecho en Tejas, winner of the PEN/Southwest Book Award, and A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands, winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein/Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in both the New Yorker and Harper's, and his work has been featured in Best American Essays and O. Henry Prize Stories.
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