Border confluences : borderland narratives from the Mexican War to the present

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Title:

Border confluences : borderland narratives from the Mexican War to the present

Author:

King, Rosemary A., 1966-

Personal Author:

King, Rosemary A., 1966-

Publication Information:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2004]

Physical Description:

xvii, 170 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Claiming space: domestic places, national divides. Ramona: a story / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The squatter and the Don / María Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- Caballero: a historical novel / Jovita González. Moving in space: southern journeys of transformation. Stones for Ibarra / Harriet Doerr -- Old gringo / Carlos Fuentes -- All the pretty horses / Cormac McCarthy. Making space: northern migrations in the Hispanic bildungsroman. Pocho / José Antonio Villarreal -- Barrio boy / Ernesto Galarza -- George Washington Gómez: a Mexicotexan novel / Américo Paredes -- The rain God / Arturo Islas. Reclaiming space: dystopias and utopias in the Borderlands. Pilgrims in Aztlán / Miguel Méndez -- Almanac of the dead / Leslie Marmon Silko.

Subject Term:

American fiction -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism.

Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life.

Mexican fiction -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism.

American fiction -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Geographic Term:

Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life.

Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003012632.html