Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
Contents
The background -- The end of an era -- Gateway of the underdog -- Romanticism and reality -- The poetry -- Rhymes for rampant change -- The arbiter of moral codes -- Mecca for the landless : life in the fields -- The periphery of law and order -- Subculture of salvation -- The prose -- Southern rim of the Western novel -- Through the looking glass of the hybrid culture -- Wading into the American dream -- Before the gringos came, and after : the romantic heritage -- The quest for psychological reality -- The individual as outcast in the new millennium.
