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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Torrans, Thomas.
Imprint:	Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (235 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism. Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Mexican-American Border Region. American literature. Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. Civilization. Literature. Motion pictures. Songs. Mexican-American Border Region -- Songs and music -- History and criticism. Mexican-American Border Region -- In motion pictures. Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature. Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Electronic books. Electronic book. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11118258

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ISBN:	0585440506 9780585440507 0875652573 9780875652573 9780585440506
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Torrans, Thomas. Magic curtain. Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©2002 0875652573

Table of Contents:

Part 1. The Background
1.. The End of an Era
2.. Gateway of the Underdog
3.. Romanticism and Reality
Part 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
Part 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
Afterword
Notes on Sources, Readings and Films
Index