My book project, Corazones Urbanos: Critical Literary Regionalism and Southwest Cities, examines literary and nonfictional narratives regarding the discursive and spatial displacement of regional Mexican American communities, particularly as manifested in Tucson, Albuquerque, and San Antonio during the 20th century.
This project aims to understand how Mexican American writers from these communities have interpreted, mediated, and critiqued the racially charged discourses that have sought to dispossess and displace established ethnic communities from historic downtown landscapes in favor of affluent city elites and racialized capitalistic development.
Place becomes both a site of loss and a medium of cultural resilience — and the writers of the Southwest Borderlands are its most eloquent witnesses.
