MEXICO in a TWO-OCEAN WAR: From the Tex-Mex Border to the Pacific
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Hispanic Studies, Asian Studies. Social Studies, European History, World History, English, Literature, Creative Writing.
The only time in history Mexico and the U.S. were ever Allies!
“MEXICO IN A TWO OCEAN WAR:
From the Tex-Mex Border to the Pacific”
Seminal military history as creative writing honoring Hispanic Heritage worldwide.
Multicultural curricula adapted from a graphic novel prototype AZTEC EAGLES of WORLD WAR II: Mexico's Heroes, America's Brothers by professional writer Cynthia Buchanan. This curriculum was taught as micro-history in 2021 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis but is perfect for all ages globally and internationally.
· Powerhouse photos and graphics from “the two-ocean war!”
· Allied defense strategies: Mexico and the United States!
· Plus, novelist, journalist and book reviewer Cynthia Buchanan delivers the goods for sure in her own value-added essay, study guide and questions.
“HOW A WRITER BUILT A GRAPHIC NOVEL! YOU CAN, TOO, GRASSHOPPER!”
· Craft, plot, characters, theme and expressive language.
This new innovative packet for critical thinking, independence, cultural awareness, flexibility and skills you will treasure lifelong. You will love “Mexico in a Two Ocean War,” another cutting edge approach to literature and history from a published novelist, editor and literary consultant.
Curricula for a “whole new mind”
Educator’s links are at
https://www.gofundme.com/hispanic-heritage-graphic-novel-for-education
Cynthia Buchanan is represented by intellectual property law firm Jackson Walker, L.L.P. • Member of GLOBALAW • www.jw.com • Emilio B. Nicolas
AUTHOR’S BIO
Cynthia Buchanan, a native of the southern border states of Arizona and Texas, is a specialist on transnational culture. As writer, innovator and “thought leader” her experiences on three continents equipped her to serve as consultant to educators, university presses, historians, and law enforcement. She once wrote curriculum for a private investigator training Mexican officials in solving cartel crimes.
Fluent in Spanish and with an M.A. in Creative Writing from University of the Americas in Mexico she was awarded a Fulbright grant in Creative Writing under the U.S. State Department to go to Spain.
Buchanan was then an author in New York, who sold her first novel Maiden to Columbia Pictures through an option by Lily Tomlin. She then wrote characters for Lily Tomlin’s nightclub and Broadway shows. Tomlin also acted the lead in Buchanan’s play in Washington, D.C. at Arena Stage under a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for new American playwrights. As a novelist she was also a MacDowell Colony Fellow.
Her book reviews, articles and opinion essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, Cornell Review, Transatlantic Review, Antaeus, and Harvard Advocate among others. Her works have been required reading as American Literature at New York University, Harvard, Dartmouth and UCLA, to name a few.
She has been a speaker at the Harvard/Radcliffe Publishing Procedures course and at Columbia University. She has taught creative writing at Texas universities, where she designed a course called “How to Write Your War Story as Fact or Fiction.”
In her role apart as a literary consultant and editor who coaches writers. they often discover, “fiction is more intriguing than fact.” Or else, “fact is a poor story teller,” as the maxim goes. Nobel prize winning novelist Alexandr Solzynitsyn believed one “changes the truth in order to preserve it.”
Buchanan’s memoir in progress, Tiger’s Heart in Writer’s Hide features a cover photo of the author interviewing John Wayne.
Her adventures include her experiences one-on-one with Veterans of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and Gregory Hemingway, not to mention some of the giants of literature--Philip Roth, Ben Fountain and two-time National Book Award winner William Gaddis as well as Pulitzer Prize winners Norman Mailer, James Michener and Harrison Salisbury.
In New York she was invited to dine with Gabriel García Márquez since she was fluent in Spanish. The Colombian novelist—soon Nobel prize laureate--was living in Barcelona, once a leftist stronghold of the Spanish Republic; his dialogue with Buchanan became particularly electrified when he noted her expertise in Spain, including interviews on both sides of the Atlantic with survivors of Spain’s tragic Civil War.
She has finished a new novel set in the Spanish West and in 2020 also competed The Scarlet Spaniard (“Jihad in Spain: Franco and Hitler in the Holocaust”). She recently sold a chapter as curriculum on TeachersPayTeachers.com.
Her other innovative multicultural and Latino literature at ww.bit.ly/fictionforce is her short graphic novel When the Devil Rode the Border, set on the Texas-Mexico frontier as literary satire with a study guide and essays.
