Right/Write to Narrate

Right/Write to Narrate is a Chicano craft manifesto for writers who refuse erasure.

Written for young Chicanas, Chicanos, Chicanx writers, barrio philosophers, family witnesses, poets, essayists, storytellers, and anyone pushed to the margins of American letters, this book asks what happens when writing is no longer treated as decoration, confession, classroom obedience, or trauma performance.

What happens when writing becomes presence?

Tezozomoc writes from the crossroads of Chicano literature, barrio memory, family survival, Indigenous inheritance, political witness, speculative imagination, and the unfinished wound of history. This is a book about voice, memory, style, refusal, cultural survival, and the right to narrate one's own world without asking the empire to approve the sentence.

Part craft guide, part literary intervention, part manifesto, Right/Write to Narrate argues for a twenty-first-century Chicano esthetic of permanent presence.

This book is for writers who have been told their language is too mixed, their memory too political, their family history too specific, their pain too much, their humor too sharp, their imagination too strange, or their sentence too brown for the room.

No.

We were never waiting for permission.

We were waiting for the sentence to remember us.