Title The Magic Curtain : the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song / by Thomas Torrans

Published Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Mexican-American Border Region LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Authors, American -- Homes and haunts Civilization Literature Motion pictures Songs SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Songs and music -- History and criticism Mexican-American Border Region -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000105 Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585440506 9780585440507

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