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Stations of the Border Cross: Self-discovery and Smoldering Epiphanies in Octavio Solis’ Memoir Retablos

In his literary debut Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border, El Paso native Octavio Solis invites his audience to consider the ephemera of one’s adolescence as the essence of identity. The playwright-turned-memoirist accomplishes this by employing a folk Catholic tool for self-reflection: the retablo, the framed art behind an altar or, as […]

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