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Centaur of the North
''Centaur of the North'', a collection of short stories linked by common words, plot elements, and themes, was written by South Texas author Wendell Mayo (Houston: Arte Público, 1996), with a second printing in 1999. This first short story collection by Corpus Christi author Wendell Mayo won the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize in 1996. The stories' settings move between Corpus Christi in South Texas and various cities in the mid-west, and they focus on families of dual heritage and the ideas of rootedness, tradition, language, and truth.
== Common Themes ==
The setting of the collection, which is in South Texas and the Midwest in the latter part of the twentieth century, becomes one of the collection’s subjects. Corpus Christi, which is located on the South Texas coast an hour and a half from Mexico’s borders, evokes a set of questions upon which the work focuses. How can one find an identity among the fabrications, truths, half-truths and myths which have been woven into stories and passed down the generations? How can two linguistic heritages, Spanish and English—''lengua'' and tongue—refer to a single truth (See multilingualism)?
The Midwest is where the mother-character who appears in many of these stories longs to be immersed in a Hispanic culture that she has left behind in Texas. The children that appear in Mayo’s stories hear their parents speak mystifying words in Spanish, or performing healing rituals such as that to banish ''el mal ojo'' (the evil eye; see Curandero) that leave them confused. Pictured growing up in traditional Mexican kitchens where ''lengua'' (tongue) is cooked and tales are spun, on the beach, or in suburban schoolrooms and living-rooms, the children try to choose between their Mexican and their American roots. Despite the central characters’ attempts to discover and own their real roots, they find themselves mystified or repelled by the foreignness of a world that should be familiar.
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