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    A Study Guide for Juan A.A. Sedillo's "Gentlemen of Rio en Medio"
    A Study Guide for Juan A.A. Sedillo's "Gentlemen of Rio en Medio"
    A Study Guide for Juan A.A. Sedillo's "Gentlemen of Rio en Medio"
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    A Study Guide for Juan A.A. Sedillo's "Gentlemen of Rio en Medio"

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    A Study Guide for Juan A.A. Sedillo's "Gentlemen of Rio en Medio," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535823838
    A Study Guide for Juan A.A. Sedillo's "Gentlemen of Rio en Medio"

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      A Study Guide for Juan A.A. Sedillo's "Gentlemen of Rio en Medio" - Gale

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      Gentleman of Rio en Medio

      Juan A. A. Sedillo

      1939

      Introduction

      Juan A. A. Sedillo was a New Mexican attorney and politician who, in the middle of his career, wrote a story, Gentleman of Rio en Medio, that would resonate with steady streams of readers through the remainder of the twentieth century and beyond. Much as he only dabbled in an acting career, Sedillo only dabbled in literature as well, ultimately earning his place in history as a judge on the International Court of Justice in Morocco. Sedillo certainly drew on a lawyerly objectivity and a judicial sense of fairness, in addition to his Spanish American roots, in writing Gentleman of Rio en Medio, which was first published in the New Mexico Quarterly in 1939.

      The story is an attorney's account of the purchase of the property of a dignified old gentleman in a small Hispano village. The old man defies the attorney's expectations both in completing the sale and in clearing up a certain matter afterward. Perhaps because of the poignancy with which the story captures the gradual historical ebbing of the village-level way of life, it has been republished many times, including in We Are Chicanos: An Anthology of Mexican-American Literature (1973), edited by Philip K. Ortego y Gasca; Windows and Walls, Vol. 1 (1980), edited by Theodore Clymer; and a great number of literature textbooks.

      Author Biography

      Sedillo was born in 1902 into a New Mexican family in which, by virtue of the father's devotion to learning, education was highly valued. On both sides, his lineage was recorded as extending back to Spanish royalty. While attending law school at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C., Sedillo happened to encounter an executive from Fox Studios who deemed his presence noteworthy, and he was cast as a Cuban detective in Girl from Havana (1929), but he did not pursue a film career. Back in New Mexico in the early 1930s, he practiced law and meanwhile served as secretary of the Progressive Party and as a state senator representing Santa Fe. In 1939, he published Gentleman of Rio en Medio in the New Mexico Quarterly.

      In 1944, bearing the rank of lieutenant general in the military's Judge Advocate General Corps, Sedillo served on court-martial panels such as that which

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