Carlos Nicolás Flores
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Carlos Nicolás Flores is an American writer of novels, short stories, and essays. A lifelong resident of the Texas-Mexico border, he has spent many years studying and writing about the Mexican American experience. His literary work explores intersections of Western high-culture and La Raza and advances the tradition of Chicano literature. He began teaching English grammar, composition, and literature courses at Laredo Junior College (later Laredo Community College) in 1971, and after receiving a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to Dartmouth College began teaching the first Chicano and Black literature course at Laredo Community College in 1974. He has taught creative writing at both Laredo College and Texas A&M International University. Flores retired from teaching in 2020 and lives and writes in the historic district of San Ygnacio, Texas on the northern bank of the Rio Grande River.
EARLY LIFE
Flores, the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Mexican mother, was born and raised in El Paso, Texas[1]. He studied briefly at the University of Dallas[2], then received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Texas at El Paso. An avid reader from a young age, Flores’ most important influences have been the works of Dostoevsky and Faulkner[3].His master’s thesis was a collection of short stories, A ganglion of seeds and other stories[4].
CAREER
From his teaching post at Laredo Community College, in 1977, Flores and colleagues established the Chicano literary journal Revista Río Bravo[5] that included authors such as Rudolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Dr. Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, José Limón, and others. In 1996, Flores, his wife, and another colleague founded the South Texas Writing Project to help improve K-12 teaching of composition in English and to introduce minority writers to the Texas border community[6]. Between 1990 and 2003, Flores won numerous literary awards for short stories and novels[7]From 2013 to 2019, Flores was the producing artistic director of the Teatro Chicano de Laredo highlighting the work of local playwrights and actors[8].
Flores’ novel Our House on Hueco was published in 2006 by Texas Tech University Press. The novel tells a story of growing up in El Paso and is a portrait of Mexican American family life among Anglos[9]. In 2015, Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel was published also by Texas Tech University Press. It is a sprawling satire of culture wars amidst the political stirrings on the Mexican border at the end of the Cold War[10][11].
NOVELS
Our House on Hueco. Lubbock, Tx.: Texas Tech University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780896725737.
SHORT STORIES
"El Subterraneo". La Frontera. 2003. OCLC 42365050.
"Puro Tirilongo". La Frontera. 2002. OCLC 42365050.
"Sweet Purple". La Frontera. 2002. OCLC 42365050.
"Sex as a Political Condition". Sin Fronteras: West Texas Writing Project Anthology. 1995.
“Smeltertown.” in Soto, Gary, ed. (1993). Pieces of the heart: new Chicano fiction. San Francisco, Calif: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811800686.
“Black and White,” 2nd Place in Fiction Contest, Mesa Azul Review, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1990.
“Cantina del Gusanito.” 1st Place in Fiction Contest. Sixteenth Chicano Literary Contest Anthology. University of California at Irvine, 1990.
"Smeltertown". Rio Grande Review. University of Texas at El Paso. 1987. ISSN 1099-6133.
"The Red Ribbon". The Americas Review. Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press. 1987. ISSN 1042-6213.
“Yellow Flowers.” in Anaya, Rudolfo A., ed. (1984). Cuentos Chicanos: a short story anthology. Albuquerque, N.M: Univ. of New Mexico Pr. ISBN 9780826307712.
"Boots". Goodbye, Dove. Literary Society of the University of Texas at El Paso. 1967. OCLC 48545897.
ESSAYS
“Preface,” in Koch, Randy (2002). Composing ourselves: sonnets about teaching composition on the U.S.-Mexico border. Santa Barbara, Calif: Fithian Press. ISBN 9781564743879.
"The Final Issue–and Farewell". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. ii (2). 1982. OCLC 7129385.
"A Friendship, the Canto al Pueblo, and a European Tour". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. ii (1). 1982. OCLC 7129385.
"Notes on Peregrino, Armas, Anaya, Pena, and Others". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. ii (1). 1982. OCLC 7129385.
"El Movimiento Chicano en Laredo, Texas". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. i (3). 1981. OCLC 7129385.
"Prison, Poetry and Liberation: A Review of Raul Salinas' Un Trip Through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursiones". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. i (2). 1981. OCLC 7129385.
"Padre Roberto Pena–Un Sacerdote Chicano". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. i (2). 1981. OCLC 7129385.
"A Tribute to Cecilio Garcia Camarillo". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. i (1). 1981. OCLC 7129385.
"Preliminary Remarks to Laredoans". Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. Inaugural (1). 1980. OCLC 7129385.
References
- ↑ Renteria, Ramon. "Culture Clash." El Paso Times, October 1, 2006, Page 66. via Newspapers.com (https://elpasotimes.newspapers.com/article/el-paso-times/129614605/)
- ↑ "El Pasoans on Dean's List". El Paso Times. 27 Feb 1965. pp. 5A.
- ↑ Ellington, K. (2020, September 20). “Lone Star Listens: Carlos Nicolas Flores.” Lone Star Literary Life. https://www.lonestarliterary.com/node/383
- ↑ Flores, Carlos Nicolas (1970). A ganglion of seeds and other stories. University of Texas at El Paso. Master's thesis ; vno. 759. OCLC 12533624.
- ↑ Revista Rio Bravo. Laredo, Tex.: C.N. Flores. 1981–1983. OCLC 7129385.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ↑ Ramos, Manuel. “La Bloga Interview: Carlos Nicolás Flores.” La Bloga Interview: Carlos Nicolás Flores, 1 Jan. 1970, https://labloga.blogspot.com/2015/11/la-bloga-interview-carlos-nicolas-flores.html
- ↑ “Author visiting Laredo for ‘Sex as a Political Condition’ reading, book-signing.” (2016, July 11). Lmtonline.com. Retrieved August 2, 2023, from https://www.lmtonline.com/entertainment/article/Author-visiting-Laredo-for-Sex-as-a-Political-10134460.php
- ↑ Wensel, Laurence. "El Grito en La Frontera/The Howl Along the Border: Spaces/Places and a Search for Identity in the Chicano Border Plays of Teatro Chicano de Laredo".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) in Stasiowski, Maciej, ed. (2021). In Lieu of Duration: Spatiotemporal Excursions in Literature, Film and Architecture. London: Interdisciplinary Discourses. ISBN 9781919613826. - ↑ Hommel, M. (2006). Our house on hueco. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 59(11), 496. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/our-house-on-hueco/docview/223709509/se-2
- ↑ The Texas Observer. (2019, April 20). The Observer Review: Sex As a Political Condition, by Carlos Nicolás Flores. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-observer-review-sex-as-a-political-condition-by-carlos-nicolas-flores/
- ↑ Rodriguez, Evan (19 Jul 2015). "The adventures of a gentleman caballero". Austin American Statesman. pp. E3.
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