A Story of Stories: The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Doña Ramona González
Schedule
Mon, 10 Feb, 2025 at 12:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd floor | Austin, TX
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A Story of Stories: The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Doña Ramona GonzálezCristina Devereaux Ramírez
University of Arizona
Imagine the excitement of finding a “magic box” full of your grandmother’s extensive writings that speak of her childhood and youth she experienced 100 years ago. University of Arizona author and researcher Cristina D. Ramírez happened to find such a magic box. Her family uncovered 750+ writings by Doña Ramona González, who was one of the first Chicana writers of the 1970s to publish their work in El Grito, the first research and literary journal spurred on by the Chicano Movement.
To hear about these uncovered writings, join us for an exciting lecture about Texas historical and textual recovery with author and researcher Cristina D. Ramírez of the University of Arizona, as she talks about her recently published book, A Story of Stories: The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Doña Ramona González (Trinity University Press, 2024). The lecture connects a variety of interests and disciplines: Southwest borderlands history, the Chicano literary movement of the 1970s, archival work, digital humanities, family genealogy, and translation (Spanish to English.) A Story of Stories will fascinate the most expert and novice historian, and anyone else who is interested in all or one of these areas of study and the ways they are used to write history.
Dr. Cristina Devereaux Ramírez is Professor and Department Head of the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She received her doctoral degree in English with a focus in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2010. Prior to her graduate school work, she taught middle and high school English literature and composition for 13 years with the El Paso Independent School District in Texas. Her current research focuses on archival and rhetorical recovery of Mexican and Mexican American women from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Paloma Díaz at [email protected]
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Where is it happening?
Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd floor, 2300 Red River St, Austin, TX 78712-1425, United States,Austin, TexasEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
