Rolondo Hinojosa-Smith Honored

Fri., Feb. 21, 1997

The Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas will honor Rolando Hinojosa-Smith with a day-long symposium on Friday, Feb. 21 at the Bass Lecture Hall. This noted author is also the Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor in Creative Writing in UT's English department, and a native of Mercedes, Texas. He has been at UT since 1981, and served as director for the Center for Texas Writers from 1984 to 1993. Hinojosa-Smith is the author of the Klail City Death Trip series of books, and also of This Migrant Earth, Dear Rafe, and Partners in Crime.

Symposium Events

Morning Session

9am Coffee and pan dulce

9:30 Welcome by David Montejano, CMAS Director

9:40 Richard Romo, Vice Provost, UT Austin "Rolondo Hinojosa: Vida, Hombre, Obra"

9:50 Luis Leal, UC Santa Barbara

10:10 Arturo Madrid, Trinity University

10:30 break

10:45 Los Del Valle video presentation by Manuel Medrano, UT Brownsville

11:20 Reading From His Work: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

noon Lunch break

Afternoon Session

1:30 Introduction of Speakers and Papers, José Limón, UT Austin

1:35 Critical Overview of Rolando Hinojosa's Career & Work: José David Saldívar, UC Berkeley

2:05 Rolando Hinojosa's American Dream: Joyce Glover Lee, U. of North Texas

2:30 The Feast of Time: Politics & the Comic in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series: Teresa McKenna, USC

2:55 break

3:20 Partners in Crime: Nostalgia, The National Imagination, and Greater Mexico: Ralph Rodríguez, UT-Austin

3:50 Orphans in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series: Jaime Mejía, SWTSU

4:20 The House and the Road: Memory, Change, and Homeplaces in the Work of Rolando Hinojosa: Monika Kaup, Visiting Scholar, CMAS, UT Austin

4:40 Discussion

5:30 Reception and Booksigning

Call 471-2136 for more info.

* Teresa McKenna, Chair and Associate Professor, English Department, U. of Southern California, and a participant in the above event, will present the first spring lecture of the "Chicana/Chicano Studies: Knowledge, Power and Advocacy" series Feb. 20 at the Texas Union Eastwoods Room, 2.102, at 3:30pm. McKenna's lecture is titled "The Obsidian Mirror: Claiming the Stranger's Face in Chicano Latin Studies." Her new book, Migrant Song: Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano Literature is due from UT Press this month. -- Margaret Moser