Texas : the great theft /
Boullosa, Carmen,
Texas : the great theft / Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee. - First edition. - v, 283 pages : map ; 21 cm
"Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Carmen Boullosa's newest novel Texas: The Great Theft is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland, wrested from Mexico in 1848... Boullosa views the border history through distinctly Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal each of her wildly diverse characters--Mexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dance hall girls--makes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbing"--
English translation from the Spanish.
9781941920008 (pbk. : acidfree paper) 1941920004 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
2014948227
Mexicans--History--Texas--19th century--Fiction.
Texas--Ethnic relations--History--19th century--Fiction.
Fellow Dirk Ippen Fellow Class of Spring 2024
PQ7298.12.O76 / T4913 2014
863.7
Texas : the great theft / Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee. - First edition. - v, 283 pages : map ; 21 cm
"Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Carmen Boullosa's newest novel Texas: The Great Theft is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland, wrested from Mexico in 1848... Boullosa views the border history through distinctly Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal each of her wildly diverse characters--Mexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dance hall girls--makes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbing"--
English translation from the Spanish.
9781941920008 (pbk. : acidfree paper) 1941920004 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
2014948227
Mexicans--History--Texas--19th century--Fiction.
Texas--Ethnic relations--History--19th century--Fiction.
Fellow Dirk Ippen Fellow Class of Spring 2024
PQ7298.12.O76 / T4913 2014
863.7