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Author |
: Américo Paredes |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2010-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292792517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292792514 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis With His Pistol in His Hand by : Américo Paredes
Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be forgotten. Even today, in the cantinas along both sides of the Rio Grande, Mexicans sing the praises of the great "sheriff-killer" in the ballad which they call "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez." Américo Paredes tells the story of Cortez, the man and the legend, in vivid, fascinating detail in "With His Pistol in His Hand," which also presents a unique study of a ballad in the making. Deftly woven into the story are interpretations of the Border country, its history, its people, and their folkways.
Author |
: Am Paredes |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 1958 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0292701284 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292701281 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis "With His Pistol in His Hand" by : Am Paredes
Traces the life of Gregorio Cortez Lira, a Mexican ranchhand who became the hero of a popular ballad after a shootout with a Texas sheriff, and describes various versions of the ballad
Author |
: Americo Paredes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 1975 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1067333373 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis WITH HIS PISTOL IN HIS HAND : A BORDER BALLAD AND ITS HERO by : Americo Paredes
Author |
: Manuel Medrano |
Publisher |
: University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574412871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574412876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Américo Paredes by : Manuel Medrano
Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. Born in Brownsville, Texas, along the southern U.S.-Mexico Border, Paredes’ early experiences impacted his writing during his later years as an academic. He grew up between two worlds—one written about in books, the other sung about in ballads and narrated in folktales. He attended a school system that emphasized conformity and Anglo values in a town whose population was 70 percent Mexican in origin. During World War II, he worked for the International American Red Cross and wrote for the Stars and Stripes army newspaper in the Far East. He returned to Texas with a new bride and a passion for continuing his formal education and his writing. Paredes did both at the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1956. With the publication of his dissertation, “With His Pistol in His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958, Paredes soon emerged as a challenger to the status quo. His book questioned the mythic nature of the Texas Rangers and provided an alternative counter-cultural narrative to the existing traditional narratives of Walter Prescott Webb and J. Frank Dobie, among others. For the next forty years he was a brilliant teacher and prolific writer who championed the preservation of border culture and history. He was a soft-spoken, at times temperamental, yet fearless professor. He was a co-founder in 1970 of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is credited with introducing the concept of Greater Mexico, decades before its wider acceptance today among transnationalist scholars. He received numerous awards, including La Orden del Aguila Azteca, Mexico’s most prestigious service award to a foreigner. Paredes became a scholar of scholars, guiding many students to become academic leaders. Manuel F. Medrano interviewed Paredes over a five-year period before Paredes’ death in 1999, and also interviewed his family and colleagues. For many Mexican Americans, Paredes’ historical legacy is that he raised, carried, and defended their cultural flag with a dignity that both friends and foes respected.
Author |
: Américo Paredes |
Publisher |
: Arte Publico Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1990-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1611921546 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781611921540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis George Washington Gómez by : Américo Paredes
In the 1930s, Américo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. Episodes of guerilla warfare, land grabs, racism, jingoism, and abuses by the Texas Rangers make this an adventure novel as well as one of reflection on the making of modern day Texas. George Washington GÑmez is a true precursor of the modern Chicano novel.
Author |
: Americo Paredes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0758115725 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780758115720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis With His Pistol in His Hand, a Border Ballad and Its Hero by : Americo Paredes
Author |
: José E. Limón |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 1992-07-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520911871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520911873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems by : José E. Limón
Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of literary influence but takes Bloom into the socio-political realm. Limón shows how Chicano poetry is nourished by the oral tradition of the Mexican corrido, or master ballad, which was a vital part of artistic and political life along the Mexican-U.S. border from 1890 to 1930. Limón's use of Bloom, as well as of Marxist critics Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson, brings Chicano literature into the arena of contemporary literary theory. By focusing on an important but little-studied poetic tradition, his book challenges our ideas of the American canon and extends the reach of Hispanists and folklorists as well.
Author |
: Dalton Trumbo |
Publisher |
: Kensington Publishing Corp. |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806537603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806537604 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Johnny Got His Gun by : Dalton Trumbo
The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review
Author |
: A. Paredes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:55864808 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez by : A. Paredes
Author |
: Perry Parke |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2018-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811767385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811767388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Patton and His Pistols by : Perry Parke
Intrigued by hints of “the bigger man” behind the war personality of Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., the Curator of History of the West Point Museum and a former “Army wife” studied and compared innumerable legends and stories about him. The resulting profile is the unvarnished Patton, as the public saw him and as his friends and soldiers knew him. Based solidly on contemporary sources, many of them never before tapped by historians, Patton’s exploited in Mexico, in France in 1918, and during World War II, are strung together by kernels of truth often more startling than the fiction which has surrounded them. One of America’s most famous and controversial generals is depicted through his attitude toward his famous hand guns and uniforms, and the manner in which he reacted to war and to peace. Four pistols are featured in the book, because four pistols were featured in his ife. Sixteen pages of pertinent illustrations, many published for the first time…including the only known photograph of Patton carrying two pistols…accompany the documented narrative. The pistol expert will find detailed appendixes on General Patton’s favorite weapons and their accouterments. Patton and His Pistols is a book for everyone interested in Patton the leader and Patton the man.