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“The Devil in Texas/El diablo en Texas,” by Aristeo Brito, translated by David William Foster, 212 pages, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, Tempe, Ariz., $12.
ARISTEO Brito’s novel-memoir “The Devil in Texas” emerges from the incantatory folk history of the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo border, the history people feel in the bone, and the blood, and the heart.
Brito grew up in Presidio, the small (pop.
1,603 last count) isolated West Texas town that is the real protagonist of his novel. It is across the river from Ojinaga, a slightly larger town in Chihuahua, Mexico. Both are hot, dry and dusty, and hundreds of miles from any real city.
“The Devil in Texas” is essentially a chronicle of Anglo Texan oppression of Chicanos and Mexicans at Presidio, an area that was completely Spanish and Indian 165 years before the first Anglo appeared in 1848, and presumably totally Indian before that.
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