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The hammon and the beans and other stories / Américo Paredes ; with an introduction by Rámon Saldívar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Fiction.
- Mexican Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (li, 230 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The ongoing struggle of Mexican-Americans between their Mexican past and their American future. The cultural confrontation is taken all the way to the Far East with stories on Mexican-American soldiers fighting the Korean War and living in Japan. By the author of With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The hammon and the beans
- Over the waves is out
- Macaria's daughter
- A cold night
- The Gringo
- A small brown bird
- Revenge
- Brothers
- Rebeca
- Little Joe
- The gift
- When it snowed in Kitabamba
- Ichiro Kikuchi
- Sugamo
- The terribly high cost
- Getting an oboe for Joe
- The American dish.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5185-0174-5
- 1-5185-0271-7
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