Querencia - (Querencias) by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez & Levi Romero & Herrera R Spencer (Paperback)

About the Book

This collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies explores the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genízaro writers and scholars from across the state.

Book Synopsis

This collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies explores the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genízaro writers and scholars from across the state.

Review Quotes

Querencia's evocative prose and engagement with contemporary politics make it an accessible and timely reassessment of New Mexico's historical consciousness, while interlocking geographies of race, gender, and colonialism grant it a broader relevance as a robust framework for borderlands history.--Joseph Ukockis, Western Historical Quarterly

(Querencia) is filled with meaningful, important stories and discourse that prove how the use and importance of storytelling, memories, and activism shape communities, identities, and history.--Carolynn Salazar, Panhandle Plains Historical Review

Inspiring and thought-provoking.--The Literary West Review

Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Levi Romero, and Spencer R. Herrera bring together in Querencia fifteen Chicanx, Indigenous, and Genízaro writers and scholars whose work provides an insightful and well-considered approach to the ever-complex relationship between place, land, identity, and culture.--Jorge A. Hernández Jr., New Mexico Historical Review

"Querencia's evocative prose and engagement with contemporary politics make it an accessible and timely reassessment of New Mexico's historical consciousness, while interlocking geographies of race, gender, and colonialism grant it a broader relevance as a robust framework for borderlands history."--Joseph Ukockis, Western Historical Quarterly

"Querencia's strength is its ability to foster conversations among the various peoples that populate the Land of Enchantment so that stories are shared and multiple narratives can hold meaning at once."--Daniel Arbino, Western American Literature

"(Querencia) is filled with meaningful, important stories and discourse that prove how the use and importance of storytelling, memories, and activism shape communities, identities, and history."--Carolynn Salazar, Panhandle Plains Historical Review

"Inspiring and thought-provoking."--The Literary West Review

"Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Levi Romero, and Spencer R. Herrera bring together in Querencia fifteen Chicanx, Indigenous, and Genízaro writers and scholars whose work provides an insightful and well-considered approach to the ever-complex relationship between place, land, identity, and culture."--Jorge A. Hernández Jr., New Mexico Historical Review

About the Author

Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez is an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University and the coeditor of Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays.

Levi Romero is an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works and Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (both from UNM Press).

Spencer R. Herrera is an associate professor of Spanish at New Mexico State University. He is the author of several books and is a coauthor of Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (UNM Press).

Rudolfo Anaya is the acclaimed author of Bless Me, Ultima and many other books.