The Transnational National: Race, the Border, and the Immigrant Nationalism of Josefina Niggli's Mexican Village

Abstract

IN 2003, THE STATE CULTURAL CENTER OF NUEVO LEON, MEXICO, ISSUED Apartate , hermano , a Spanish translation of Mexican American writer Josefina Nigglis Step Down, Elder Brother , originally published in 1947. The small flurry of assessments that followed regarding Niggli's place in the literary history of the region came to a remarkable consensus: that the author was an invisible precursor to the narrative tradition that would later flower in Nuevo Leon. Most would acknowledge the paradox inherent in choosing Niggli as the starting point of the region's literary genealogy, given that she published all of her works in English and in the United States. Yet none raised this as an objection to her newly asserted status as a writer of Monterrey. For ultimately, these evaluations focused not on Niggli's personal identity, but on her subject matter, the themes that she developed, and the perspective from which she wrote.

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