Multicultural, multiethnic, and multidisciplinary, Her Texas
includes stories, essays, memoirs, poetry, song lyrics, paintings,
and photographs by 60 Texas women. Texas, once a country unto
itself, has engendered myths and legends that rival the magnetic
force of national identity. At first, Texas writers looked toward
the men who embodied the larger-than-life stories of cowboys and
Indians, pioneers and outlaws, cattle barons and oil kings.
Although the female writers, poets, songwriters, artists, and
photographers of this collection know this heritage, they also
illuminate a Texas that is large enough in landscape, history, and
spirit to include a multitude of experiences and identities.
Discover women who write with intelligence, humour, pain, and joy
of experiences rooted in the far-flung landscapes and cityscapes of
Texas, and who enlarge the definition of "Texan" to include
multifaceted lives lived in fertile intersections where myths and
realities meet: a teenage mother from San Antonio compares her
dreams with her real life; a Tejana recalls her downtown childhood
in terms of a magical-realist game of loteria; a cop from Houston
takes her place in a historically male environment; a popular blues
musician pays homage to the grounding influence of her mother; a
photographer shares her vision of the beauties and environmental
degradations of Texas landscapes; a woman helps her injured horse
regain his health while she recovers from the wounds of
unemployment; a young mother and professor faces breast cancer; a
tent-revival organist's daughter manifests a spirituality of her
own; a grandmother in an Iranian-American family struggles to
survive in the isolation of suburbia; a nun ties herself in the
midst of a hurricane to the orphans in her care; while at a Dallas
flea market, an African-American woman comes to terms with her
relationship with her African sister-in-law; a renowned poet
illuminates her husband's struggle with Parkinson's disease; an
anthropologist explores the haunting cave paintings of Palo Duro
canyon; and a Tejana poet describes mid-life, her love for her
mother, and her love for her son. Issues covered in this anthology
include sexual abuse and recovery; struggles against disease,
poverty, and isolation; ethnic identity and heritage; musical
roots; environmental degradation of water, air, and landscape;
family and relationships; political and intellectual struggles, and
more.
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