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Género/Forma: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Formato físico adicional: | Online version: Torrans, Thomas. Magic curtain: the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song. Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©2002 (OCoLC)606737093 |
Tipo de documento | Libro |
Todos autores / colaboradores: |
Thomas Torrans |
ISBN: | 0875652573 9780875652573 |
Número OCLC: | 50028836 |
Descripción: | 235 pages ; 24 cm |
Contenido: | 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. |
Responsabilidad: | by Thomas Torrans. |
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Resumen:
This text looks at the United States-Mexico border in fiction, film and song. Borderlands have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability. They are readily used as backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another.
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