Can I read The magic curtain : the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song on EtoBox?

The magic curtain : the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song by Torrans, Thomas is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The magic curtain : the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song about?

Borderlandsespecially the United States-Mexico borderlandhave long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability, according to Thomas Torrans. And bordersor magic curtainshave readily been fashioned into exotic backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. The protagonists are equally at home in both societies, or, at worst, at home in neither. True border novels form a literature that deserves a category all its own. There is an uneven qualitya coarseness sometimes mixed with polish, running the gamut of emotion from the tragic to the comic. One recent fictional attempt to exploit the border's historical aspects is Fandango by Ron McCoy (1984), while one of the older efforts is that of the early twentieth-century novelist Will Levington Comfort in Somewhere South in Sonora (1925). Border fiction is often just part of a larger whole and a number of books, whether fiction or nonfiction, seldom if ever cross the magical line between the two cultures. They remain, for the most part, fully centered in either Mexico or the United States, such as J. Frank Dobies very Texan A Vaquero of the Brush Country or his perso

Author

Torrans, Thomas

Publisher

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780875652573

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction