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1	"Mexican Goodbye" Hernandez, Xaviera 05 1900 (has links) Mexican Goodbye is a collection of poetry that interrogates the dichotomy of a family fractured in conjunction with a speaker's coming of age. The collection reckons with divorce and the subsequent dissolution of the speaker's Mexican American family. Individual poems deal with sisterhood, daughterhood, Chicanismo, grief, the intergenerational impact of the immigrant experience, and inherited trauma. The titular poem illustrates the typical Mexican goodbye, a Latine despedida which can last hours, extended by continued chisme and prolonged conversation. It is this cultural phenomenon that the collection endeavors to encapsulate by lingering in narrative, listing childhood experiences, and allowing the speaker to yearn to return and remain in the past. Ultimately, the speaker desires to linger in the farewell. poetry sisterhood daughterhood childhood adulthood immigrant experience divorce Mexican American Chicane Latine Tejana grief coming of age elegy generational trauma family queerness otherness Mexican goodbye citizenship undocumented immigrant Mexican-American border bilingual bicultural binational code-switching Spanish language southern Texan poetics