Briseno's exhibit, La mesa de Moctezuma/Moctezumas's table, was held at the Instituto Cultural Mexicano, San Antonio, and later at the Instituto de Mexico, Montreal, Canada.

Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest. Until recently, little attention has been paid to the writing of the women included in this study. As Kabalen de Bichara notes, it is precisely such historical exclusion of texts written by Mexican American women that gives particular significance to the reexamination of the five autobiographical works that provide the focus for...

." . . a graphically gorgeous, fascinating work that both profiles Rodriguez and documents the remarkable breadth of his work, which reached across the United States from 1924 through the early 1950s. . . . Light places Rodriguez's work firmly in artistic, cultural, and historical context, providing an excellent introductory overview of the development of "trabajo rustico" or" faux bois" work in Europe, Mexico, and among other artists in the United States, and his contemporaries, such as Rivera, Orozco, and others. . . . Even the most casual reading of "Capturing Nature" cannot fail to...