Querencia

Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland

Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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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.

Product Details

  • Publisher: UNM Press (June 15, 2020)
  • Length: 376 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826361608

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Raves and Reviews

(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

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 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

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

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

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