| Description |
xxiii, 562 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents |
Novel excerpts. Bless me, Ultima -- Tortuga -- Albuquerque -- Zia summer -- Short stories. B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca -- The apple orchard -- The silence of the llano -- The gift -- In search of Epifano -- Children of the desert -- The man who found a pistol -- Devil deer -- Message from the Inca -- Essays. Requiem for a lowrider -- The magic of words -- A New Mexico Christmas -- An American Chicano in King Arthur's court, from A Chicano in China -- At a crossroads -- Mythical dimensions/political reality -- The New World Man -- Aztlan -- Take the tortillas out of your poetry -- On the education of Hispanic children -- The censorship of neglect -- La Llorona, El Kookooee, and sexuality -- Bendiceme, America -- Plays and poems. Who killed Don Jose? -- Billy the Kid -- "Walt Whitman strides the Ilano of New Mexico". |
| Summary |
A collection of works by the "father of Chicano literature in English". |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
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Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
0446670774 (trade paper) |
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9780446670777 (trade paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 403423 |
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AU@ 000011290674 |
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ZWZ 022501320 |
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DEBSZ 051971933 |
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