Neither Friends, Nor Strangers:

Mexicans and Anglos in the Literary Making of Texas

 

Claudio Aguillon "Gallos" Serie VIII, Serie Project, Inc.

 

The history of Texas has been characterized by a conflicted yet evolving and ambivalent relationship between its Spanish/Mexican origin population with its origins in the 18^th century and that population entering the region from the United States in the 1820s that came to be loosely labeled “Anglo-Americans.”  Professor Limón’s lecture is based on a book in progress that examines the ways creative writers from both groups have comparatively imagined this conflicted history even as they also responded to the larger socio-economic modernization and the post-modernization of Texas.