Meet the
Author Series at Paragraphs
Saturday,
September 8th 2018 4 to 5 PM
“El Rinche”
Book
discussion, reading and signing with author Christopher Carmona
El Rinche is a reimagining and flip of the
script of an American popular culture icon. This novel tells the story a
light-skinned Mexican American named Ascencion “Chonnie” Ruiz de Plata. He
disguises himself as the ghost of a Texas Ranger on the South Texas border of
Mexico now known as The Rio Grande Valley between 1905-1921. Together with his
partner, the Native American Tal’dos, a Japanese ninja master, and the most
successful U.S. Marshall of all time, Bass Reeves (the real lone ranger),
Chonnie takes on the superhero persona of “El Rinche” to fight the villainous
Texas Rangers and save the local peoples of the area.
Dr. Christopher Carmona is an Assistant
Professor of Mexican American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of
Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is a member of the Ad Hoc Committee for the TX
State Board of Education for Mexican American Studies. Currently, he serves as
the Chair of the NACCS Tejas Foco Committee on Implementing MAS in PreK-12
Education in Texas. His short story collection, The Road to Llorona
Park, is listed by NBCNews as one of the 8 Great Latino Books published in
2016. Carmona was the winner of the NACCS Tejas
Award for Best Fiction Book of 2016 for The Road to Llorona Park.
He serves on Responsible Ethnic Studies Textbook committee that was awarded
the "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" award for
excellence in educational leadership f from the Mexican
American School Board Association (MASBA). He has published
three books of poetry, co-edited two anthologies, and co-authored a scholarly
conversation book, called Nuev@s Voces Poeticas: A Conversation about new
Chican@ Identities. Currently, he is working on a series of YA novellas
reimagining the “Lone Ranger” story as a Chicanx superhero fighting Texas Rangers
in the Rio Grande Valley from 1905-1920 entitled El Rinche: The Ghost
Ranger of the Rio Grande. Book One is out in bookstores now.
This event is free and open to the public
Paragraphs On Padre Boulevard, 5505 Padre Blvd. South Padre
Island, TX
For information
call us at 956-433-5057
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