Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature edited by Dagoberto Gilb

“The administration is planning to double the cost of applying for citizenship and hoping to triple the cost of applying for a green card, and many Americans are eager to build a wall along the banks of the Rio Grande to separate the United States and Mexico. Meanwhile, here in Texas, the House of Representatives declared, with House Resolution 285, that Feb. 10, was “Hecho en Tejas Day,” a day honoring Texas-Mexican authors.

Hecho en Tejas, edited by award-winning fiction writer Dagoberto Gilb, is an anthology of Texas-Mexican authors dating back to the days of the Spanish explorers. The books comprehensive sweep includes ballads and corridos, poetry, essays, short stories, letters, photographs, novel excerpts and political declarations such as Juan Nepamuceno Cortinas 1859 proclamation declaring the establishment of the Republic of the Rio Grande.”

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