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| Genre/Form: | Songs and music |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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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