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The magic curtain: the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song
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The magic curtain: the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song

Author: Thomas Torrans
Publisher: Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©2002.
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Genre/Form: Songs and music
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Torrans, Thomas.
Magic curtain: the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song.
Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, c2002
(OCoLC)606737093
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Torrans
ISBN: 0875652573 9780875652573
OCLC Number: 50028836
Description: 235 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: by Thomas Torrans.

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