Rudolfo Anaya's New Mexico

ABOUT ME

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I decided to do this project for a few different reasons. There was the more immediate reason: I needed a summer internship to complete my MLIS degree with the University of Arizona. I chose to do a digital humanities project on Rudolfo Anaya because I have lived in New Mexico off and on since 2004 and I wanted to acknowledge his importance to the state's cultural production.

 

A secondary impulse to do this project was that I had spent the previous summer at the Center for Southwest Research at UNM as a Greenleaf scholar. There I used the archives to examine resistance to Los Alamos National Labs through cultural production (literature, artwork, testimonios, etc.). I worked with Anaya's short story "Devil Deer," but I remained fascinated with his entire collection, and particularly the piece, "Rio Grande High Tech." I knew that I wanted to return to work with the Anaya papers.

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The third and final reason was personal more than anything. After some time away, I found myself living in New Mexico once again, trying to reconnect with a state that had shaped so much of my adulthood. Reading Anaya's works and listening to his audiobooks while I drove around the state helped me to restablish a sense of appreciation for a writer, his people, and his places. 

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If you have any comments, edits, or suggestions, please contact me using the form below.

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-Daniel Arbino 

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