Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City death trip series : a retrospective, new directions / edited by Stephen Miller and José Pablo Villalobos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Stephen, 1946- editor.

Villalobos, José Pablo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hinojosa, Rolando. Klail City death trip series.

Hinojosa, Rolando.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The eleven essays in this volume consider both broad and specialized aspects of the Klail City Death Trip Series. Divided into two sections, the chapters in the first half examine the series as a whole and look at general topics such as cultural hybridity, the individual's needs versus those of society and the influence of Hispanic literary tradition on Hinojosa's work. The essays in the second half explore more specific aspects, including Klail City youth going to war, women's search for autonomy in the face of societal and familial tradition and a comparison of Hinojosa's The Valley with Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show as examples of Hispanic and Anglo literary traditions that developed in the same region.Also included is an interview with Rolando Hinojosa, the Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the most prestigious prize in Latin American fiction, Casa de las Américas, for the best Spanish American novel in 1976 and the Premio Quinto Sol, the National Award for Chicano Literature, in 1972. This collection is an essential tool for scholars and students alike in understanding the work of Rolando Hinojosa and the people living a bilingual, bicultural life along the Texas-Mexico border.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Rolando Hinojosa and Contemporary U.S. Hispanic Literature""; ""I. Broad Studies of the Klail City Death Trip Series""; ""A Cultural Journey The Transformation of the Valley in the""; ""Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Erasing Borders Cultural, Linguistic, Literary""; ""The Polifacetic Individualism of Rolando Hinojosa�s Klail City Death Trip""; ""The Klail City Death Trip as Seen through Spanish Narrative: Authors, Themes and Techniques of the Hispanic Tradition, with Special Reference to Benito Perez Galdos""

""The Klail City Death Trip Series A Trovador's Eternal Space for an Enduring Transitory World""""II. Specialized Studies of the Klail City Death Trip Series""; ""Time that Remains in Time: The Estampas of Rolando Hinojosa-Smith""; ""The Wounds of War Mapping Geographies of Trauma in Rolando Hinojosa�s Korean Love Songs""; ""Critical Regionalism and the Literature of Texas: The Comparative Case of Rolando Hinojosa and Larry McMurtry""; ""Feminine Autonomy in Becky and Her Friends by Rolando Hinojosa""

""Rolando Hinojosa�s Klail City Sociological and Demographic Reflections of a Hometown""""Rolando Hinojosa�s Texas-Mexican Border Writing the Landscape of Migrants, Mafias and Militarization""; ""Interview with Rolando Hinojosa: His Doctoral-Study Years (1963-69) at the University of Illinois""; ""About the Editors""; ""Contributors""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61192-525-8

OCLC:

922965218