El Paso Del Norte
Title | El Paso Del Norte PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Yañez |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0874179041 |
The Chicano characters in Richard Yañez's debut story collection live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders—between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death. The teenaged narrator of "Desert Vista" copes with a new school and a first love while negotiating the boundaries between his family's tenuous middle-class status and the working-class community in which they have come to live. Tony Amoroza, the protagonist of "Amoroza Tires," wrestles with the grief from his wife's death until an unexpected legacy fills him with new faith. María del Valle, "La Loquita," the central character of "Lucero's Mkt.," crosses the border into madness while her neighbors watch, gossip, and try to offer—or refuse—aid. Yañez writes with perfect understanding of his borderland setting, a landscape where poverty and violence impinge on traditional Mexican-American values, where the signs of gang culture strive with the ageless rituals of the Church. His characters are vivid, unique, fully authentic, searching for purpose or identity, for hope or meaning, in lives that seem to deny them almost everything. Yañez's world is that of the Southwestern Chicanos, but the fears and yearnings of his characters are universal.
Spirits of the Border
Title | Spirits of the Border PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Hudnall |
Publisher | Omega Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2003-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780962608780 |
Pass of the North
Title | Pass of the North PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Leland Sonnichsen |
Publisher | Southern Methodist University Press |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | El Paso (Tex.) |
ISBN |
Historia del Paso del Norte: cuatro siglos en el Río Bravo. Incluye índice. Texto en inglés.
Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Title | Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border PDF eBook |
Author | K. Staudt |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-09-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230112919 |
The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.
Paso Del Norte
Title | Paso Del Norte PDF eBook |
Author | Juan Rulfo |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780292701328 |
A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality.
Forty Years at El Paso 1858-1898
Title | Forty Years at El Paso 1858-1898 PDF eBook |
Author | William Wallace Mills |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 118 |
Release | 2020-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752443588 |
Reproduction of the original: Forty Years at El Paso 1858-1898 by William Wallace Mills
El Paso Del Norte
Title | El Paso Del Norte PDF eBook |
Author | Roe Richmond |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1982-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780441203666 |