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Author O'Shea, Elena Zamora

Title El mesquite : a story of the early Spanish settlements between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, as told by "la posta del palo alto" / Elena Zamora O'Shea ; with new introductions by Andrés Tijerina & Leticia M. Garza-Falcón
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (lxvi, 80 pages) : illustrations
Series Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 4
Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 4
Summary "Through the voice of the gnarled old tree, Elena Zamora O'Shea tells South Texas political and ethnographic history, filled with colorful details of daily life such as songs, local plants and folk medicines, foods and recipes, peone/patron relations, and the distinctive Tejano ranch vocabulary. The work, engaging and lively, is an important example of the historical-folkloristic literary genre used by Mexican American writers of the period. Using the literary device of the tree's narration, O'Shea raises issues of culture, discrimination, and prejudice she could not have addressed in her own voice in that day and explicitly states the Mexican American ideology of 1930s Texas. The result is a literary and history work of lasting value, which clearly and courageously articulates the Tejano claim to legitimacy in Texas history."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages lxv-lxvi)
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Spanish Americans -- Fiction
Pioneers -- Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
Ethnic relations -- Fiction
FICTION -- Historical.
Ethnic relations
Frontier and pioneer life
Pioneers
Spanish Americans
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
SUBJECT Texas, South -- Fiction
Subject South Texas
Genre/Form Fiction
Historical fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Tijerina, Andrés
Garza-Falcón, Leticia
LC no. 00041158
ISBN 0585388997
9780585388991