The Magic Curtain : the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Torrans, Thomas
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The background
  • 1. The end of an era
  • 2. Gateway of the underdog
  • 3. Romanticism and reality
  • pt. 2. The poetry
  • 4. Rhymes for rampant change
  • 5. The arbiter of moral codes
  • 6. Mecca for the landless : life in the fields
  • 7. The periphery of law and order
  • 8. Subculture of salvation
  • pt. 3. The prose
  • 9. Southern rim of the Western novel
  • 10. Through the looking glass of the hybrid culture
  • 11. Wading into the American dream
  • 12. Before the gringos came, and after : the romantic heritage
  • 13. The quest for psychological reality
  • 14. The individual as outcast in the new millennium.