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Author Hinojosa, Rolando, author

Title From Klail City to Korea with love : two master works : Korean love songs, from Klail City death trip : Rites and witnesses, a comedy / Rolando Hinojosa
Published Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages)
Series Klail City death trip series
Hinojosa, Rolando. Klail City death trip series.
Contents Korean love songs. The old army game -- Rookies under stress acting tough -- Friendly fire -- The evening shift (moving north) -- A sheaf of percussion fire (moving north) -- The eighth army at Chongchon -- Chinaman's hat (Hill 329) -- Rear guard action I, Nov.-Dec. 1950 -- Rear guard action II -- Rear guard action III -- Rest due and taken -- Possession for all time -- The January-May 1951 slaughter -- Until further orders the 219th field is firing blind -- Night burial details -- Boston John McCreedy drinks with certain lewd men of the baser sort -- Incoming -- Above all, the waste -- New battery position -- Brodkey's replacement -- One solution -- Liquor ration -- Jacob Mosqueda wrestles with the angels -- Visiting hours -- Fit for duty -- Old friend -- Kobe station -- Nagoya station -- Brief encounter -- At Sonny's and Tsuruko's -- At the Aoyama -- Hiro Watanabe -- Sout to Nara -- The last day -- Up before the board -- A matter of supplies -- This is where we came in -- Vale -- Rites and witnesses : a comedy. Rites -- The witnesses
Summary This volume brings together two important books in Rolando Hinojosa's lauded Klail City Death Trip series, a series that has frequently been compared to the work of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The volume returns to familiar territory as Hinojosa continues his examination of life along the border, including the discrimination faced by Texas Mexicans and locals' involvement in war
Notes Korean Love Songs: Hinojosa's only poetry book, captures the horror of war through Rafe Buenrostro's recollections. In verse that depicts the slaughter of enemy soldiers, friendships made and lost and a military bureaucracy more interested in discipline than keeping its men safe, Hinojosa chillingly revives the terror and atrocity of human conflict. Originally published in Berkeley, California by Editorial Justa Publications in 1978
Rites and witnesses: Hinojosa created brief, brilliant chapters composed of conversational fragments, each one a tile in a vivid mosaic of narrative, capturing the complex relationships and unsettling power struggles in both civilian and military life. Alternating chapters reveal the unfolding plans and schemes of the local elite bankers, ranchers and real-estate moguls while on the other side of the globe, Klail City native Corporal Rafe Buenrostro engages in skirmishes with the North Koreans, the Communist Chinese and the power brokers of the U.S. Army. Originally published in Houston, Texas by Arte Público Press in 1982
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 18, 2017)
Subject Mexican Americans -- Fiction
Death -- Fiction
Death -- Poetry
War stories.
War poetry.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Fiction
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Poetry
FICTION -- General.
Death
Mexican Americans
War poetry
War stories
SUBJECT Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) -- Fiction
Subject North America -- Rio Grande Valley
Genre/Form Fiction
Poetry
Form Electronic book
Author Hinojosa, Rolando. Korean love songs
Hinojosa, Rolando. Rites and witnesses
ISBN 9781518501173
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9781518501197
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Other Titles Novels. Selections
Korean love songs
Rites and witnesses
Korean love songs
Rites and witnesses
Korean love songs
Rites and witnesses