Devil in Texas
by Brito, Aristeo
Released: 1990
In Aristeo Brito's experimental fiction The Devil in Texas / El diablo en Texas, the border world is brought to life in vivid dialogue and dramatic encounters. We were struck especially by the brilliance of the imagery depicting Presidio, a sort of prison, stockade, and enduring village on the border of Mexico and Texas. It is an imagery arising from the shape of the land and surrounding nature as it meets and defines the experience of displaced Mexicans from the annexation of Texas in 1938, up to the present.