Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, a prizewinning Texas author whose wry, understated novels helped propel a burgeoning Chicano literary movement in the 1970s and beyond, died April 19 in the Austin suburb of Cedar Park. He was 93.
Along with novelists such asand Tomás Rivera, Dr. Hinojosa-Smith was considered a foundational figure in Chicano literature, writing books that addressed Mexican American history, culture and daily life without pandering to a White, English-speaking audience.
“He is stylistically — and kind of intellectually — at that complex intersection of the Americas, the crossroads of the Americas,” said his University of Texas colleague, a professor of American and English literature. “He wouldn’t deny that he’s a Chicano writer. But in some ways I think he would more profoundly identify as a border writer, a borderlands writer.”
The youngest of five children, he was born Romeo Daniel Hinojosa in Mercedes, Tex., on Jan. 21, 1929. He later adopted the full name Romeo Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, changing his middle name because he apparently liked the way Rolando sounded, according to his daughter, and adding his mother’s maiden name with a hyphen in honor of her legacy. Dr. Hinojosa-Smith’s family had lived in the Rio Grande Valley since at least 1750.
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