{"product_id":"a-story-of-stories-the-texas-border-barrio-life-and-writings-of-doa-ramona-gonzlez-9781595349965","title":"A Story of Stories: The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Do?a Ramona Gonz?lez","description":"One afternoon in fall 2015\u003cb\u003e Cristina Devereaux Ram?rez's\u003c\/b\u003e mother called and, with a tone of urgency in her voice, asked her to come to the house and take a look at something she had discovered when she was sorting through boxes in the attic. When Ram?rez arrived, she found her family sifting through papers in an old vegetable box, reading some of the more than 750 pages of Spanish language poems, short stories, fables, and \u003ci\u003edichos\u003c\/i\u003e Ram?rez's maternal grandmother, Ramona Gonz?lez, had written. Some pieces were works in progress, complete with word and phrase strikethroughs and handwritten notes in the margins, while others were neatly typed prose or what might have been final drafts. None of Gonz?lez's writings had seen the outside of that box for decades, at least since 1995 when the family matriarch passed away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGonz?lez--or Do?a Ramona, as she was often called--was born in 1906 in the El Paso border barrio of Chihuahuita, sometimes referred to as the Ellis Island of the Southwest. Her writing celebrates the rich Mexican American culture of Chihuahuita, a neighborhood the National Trust for Historic Preservation identified in 2016 as one of America's most endangered historic places. A mother, corner grocery store owner, published writer, and community activist, Gonz?lez was one of the few Tejanas profiled in \u003ci\u003eWorthy Mothers of Texas, 1776-1976\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Story of Stories from a Texas Border Barrio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Ram?rez chronicles the life of her \u003ci\u003eabuela\u003c\/i\u003e with the care of a granddaughter and, with the eye of a scholar, analyzes selections from Gonz?lez's work and its significance to El Paso history, Chicano literature, border barrio folklore, and cross-border civic movements in the mid-twentieth century.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tinta Books Trinity University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781595349965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324","brand":"Cristina Devereaux Ram?rez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44337858773173,"sku":"9781595349965","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e9111ce0-90a0-4087-91ac-f4e6c2a69192.jpg?v=1719329487","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-story-of-stories-the-texas-border-barrio-life-and-writings-of-doa-ramona-gonzlez-9781595349965","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}