TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boullosa,Carmen
AU  - Schnee,Samantha
TI  - Texas: the great theft 
SN  - 9781941920008 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
AV  - PQ7298.12.O76 T4913 2014
U1  - 863.7 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Dallas, Texas
PB  - Deep Vellum Publishing
KW  - Mexicans
KW  - Texas
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Dirk Ippen Fellow
KW  - Class of Spring 2024
N2  - "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"--
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