Yonder Lies It

Kategori: Aztlan

  • Jovita Gonzáles Comment 3

    In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1 the color of races play a significant role, gringos have blue eyes and servants are dark. Yet more interesting is the fact that the Caste system plays a role in the late 1800’s as is evident that society revolves around the color of the skin. Add to…

  • Jovita Gonzáles Comment 2

    In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1, the Anglo plays a rather significant roll not because we are not familiar with the eternal binomial in Chicano narrative between gringos and Chicanos but because it is an early ground we have walked upon before. Jovita is a predecessor of Aztlán geography and topology. It is…

  • comment 1

    I have come to realize that Chicano narrative has fitted quite nicely into American folklore because it is a vision. Chicanos in general all share a vision of what it was and what it might become. That is why Aztlán although despised by most Anglo loving philes can accept the fact that we exist. Even…

  • Letters

    Hopefully it will not be long from now that I can retake my writing. It has been a long time since I really wrote. It’s not until this morning that my preoccupation with writing was what was being a hurdle of sorts in my writing. I worried about being a writer and that sucked loads…

  • El Año en Spitzberg I El Año en Spitzberg II I carry in my head the voices I heard through the earphones. A free mp3 download that infiltrated my veins. I can associate. I can relate. I can feel the hispanic virus trying to seek its kin. I refuse to allow such communion. I don’t…

  • planning forsaken pleasures

    Supposedly carved into the Delphi temple were three phrases: γνωθι σεαυτόν (gnothi seauton = ”know thyself”) and Îüηδέν άγαν (meden agan = ”nothing in excess”), and Εγγύα πάρα δ’ατη (eggua para d’atÄ“ = ”make a pledge and mischief is nigh”) Am afraid that my smoking years are done. I don’t smoke on a regular basis,…

  • Chicano academics

    The theocracy of la raza are beyond the streets they study. Something happens to chicano academics that makes them distance themselves from the very culture they purport to examine. I don’t get that. In colloquial language they sell out. For some reason they have transgressed a border and become uneasy with the realities before them.…

  • love is a pain

    I wonder how aztec and maya loving chicanos will react to this. Specially La Voz de Aztlán. My, my indeed. Moctezuma was gay. He loved to gorgle the mayonesa; le gustaba el arroz con popote. Well, you get the picture. I personally don’t subscribe to the aztec and maya semiotics of the Chicano propaganda machine…

  • Ni modo

    lo confieso, fui victima del turismo. Pero ni cómo evitarlo, mis abuelos tení­an un puesto de artesaní­as en plena Ave. Revolución, tuvieron que sucumbir, a mis costas:

  • Bamba

    Gracia. Ordet Gracia. The word Gracia has never adquiered, in the English language, the significance Ritchie Valens gave it. Gracia. He knew. We knew. You know. I Knew- I know. And so it was.