TY  - GEN
T1  - El mesquite : a story of the early Spanish settlements between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, as told by "la posta del palo alto"
T2  - Rio Grande/Río Bravo ;
A1  - O'Shea, Elena Zamora
A2  - Tijerina, Andrés
A2  - Garza-Falcón, Leticia
LA  - English
PP  - College Station
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm49569072
AB  - "Through the voice of the gnarled old tree, Elena Zamora O'Shea tells South Texas political and ethnographic history, filled with colorful details of daily life such as songs, local plants and folk medicines, foods and recipes, peone/patron relations, and the distinctive Tejano ranch vocabulary. The work, engaging and lively, is an important example of the historical-folkloristic literary genre used by Mexican American writers of the period. Using the literary device of the tree's narration, O'Shea raises issues of culture, discrimination, and prejudice she could not have addressed in her own voice in that day and explicitly states the Mexican American ideology of 1930s Texas. The result is a literary and history work of lasting value, which clearly and courageously articulates the Tejano claim to legitimacy in Texas history."--Jacket.
OP  - 80
CN  - PS3565.S543 M47 2000eb
SN  - 0585388997
SN  - 9780585388991
SN  - 0890969663
SN  - 9780890969663
SN  - 1585441082
SN  - 9781585441082
KW  - Spanish Americans : Fiction.
KW  - Pioneers : Fiction.
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life : Fiction.
KW  - Ethnic relations : Fiction.
KW  - Texas, South : Fiction.
KW  - Américains d'origine espagnole : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Pionniers : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Relations interethniques : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - FICTION : Historical.
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - Spanish Americans
KW  - South Texas
KW  - American Literature.
KW  - English.
KW  - Languages & Literatures.
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction.
ER  -