Live Fiction Reading: “Americana”
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
30-9-2022 11:00 AM
Description
Laredo, Texas, and the rest of the Texas-Mexico border remains haunted by the past. Every February, Laredo hosts the largest Washington’s Birthday Celebration in the country, a city-wide event consisting of various festivals. The biggest of these events revolves around the Society of Martha Washington Colonial Pageant and Ball. In this pageant, young Latinas wear elaborate colonial ball gowns worth thousands of dollars in order to celebrate George Washington’s birthday at the cost of their own cultural identities. My fiction piece titled, “Americana,” follows Gloria Perez, an eighteen-year-old debutant, as she struggles to navigate the complexities of her Mexican and American identities.
Recommended Citation
Buentello, Jennifer, "Live Fiction Reading: “Americana”" (2022). Humanities Symposium. 18.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2022/2022/18
Live Fiction Reading: “Americana”
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Laredo, Texas, and the rest of the Texas-Mexico border remains haunted by the past. Every February, Laredo hosts the largest Washington’s Birthday Celebration in the country, a city-wide event consisting of various festivals. The biggest of these events revolves around the Society of Martha Washington Colonial Pageant and Ball. In this pageant, young Latinas wear elaborate colonial ball gowns worth thousands of dollars in order to celebrate George Washington’s birthday at the cost of their own cultural identities. My fiction piece titled, “Americana,” follows Gloria Perez, an eighteen-year-old debutant, as she struggles to navigate the complexities of her Mexican and American identities.
Comments
The Theme of September 30 is "Storytelling that Inspires"
Convocation Credit: Cultural Well-Being