Julian S. Garcia
'Julian S. Garcia has been involved in Chicano literature since the late '70s when the San Antonio arts and politics journal Caracol had its offices on W. Commerce St. in San Antonio, Texas. In 1985, Garcia became one of Caracols associate editors. He was also an Associate editor of ViAztlan, an international journal of ideas and philosophy. A deconstructionist with a penchant for Aristotelian logic and a mentor to Tejano writers, Garcia has a written articles and editorials under a nom-de-plume.[citation needed]
Biography
Best known for his short stories in Caracol (which ran from 1974-1979), ViAztlan, and Saguaro, Garcia graduated from Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Bilingual Education. He earned a Master's degree in Bicultural-Bilingual Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1977. He then studied English Literature at Southwest Texas State University.
As a short story writer and essayist, Garcia won the Caracol Fiction Prize, in 1979, with the publication of Las Manos (June 23, 1979). In 1984, the article, Writing through Suffering won another prize in ViAztlan Vol. 2, No. 7 (April, 1984). In 1985, the publication of his essay, The New Age of Chicano Music was included in a special edition of ViAztlan, No. 3., No. 2. His story, Don Cheno's Icehouse subsequently appeared in ViAztlan(March, 1985).
Poet Alurista published Garcia's The Harvest in the 1986 edition of Southwest Tales: A Contemporary Collection (Colorado State: Maize Press).[1] In 1986 the University of Arizona published his story, El Viaje in its biannual journal, Saguaro.[2]
After a ten-year hiatus, Garcia got back into fiction and published La Fantastica Curandera in Puentes (Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, ed. Jesus Rosales).
Sources
- ^ Alurista (1986-12). Southwest tales: a contemporary collection. Maize Press. ISBN 978-0-939558-09-4. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Center, University of Arizona. Mexican American Studies and Research (1984-01-01). Saguaro. Mexican American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- Rosales, Jesus. Puentes: Revista Mexico-Chicana de Literatura, cultural y arte. No.4., Otono, 2006.
- Paz, Edward. J. "Julian S. Garcia", Dictionario de Escritores Chicanos, *DF: Mexico. 2010.
- Garcia, Julian S. "Career Education." San Antonio Light, May 4, 1980.
- Garcia, Julian S. "Pancho Claus: Cousin from the South Pole" San Antonio Express-News, December 11, 2011. 3K.
- Garcia, Julian S. "Classics and Literary Heroes". San Antonio Express-News, December 20, 2011.
- Julian S. Garcia, "VIAZTLAN: INTERNATIONAL CHICANO JOURNAL OF ARTS AND LETTERS," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/edv02), accessed June 22, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.