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Author: Jean Toomer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0826356389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.
Author: Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 1997-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780780768215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Because she does not sew, cook, or dance like a proper senorita, Frida cannot please her mother until she saves the day at the fiesta with her special talent.
Author: Richard Melzer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780738525631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nicolas Kanellos
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 1982-06-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781611923193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Isabel visits her aunts on Saturdays. They dance, dress up, and make empanadas.
Author: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-04-18
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1472585100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I'm not doing a German accent You aren't doing an African accent We aren't doing accents A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling? Award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave. We Are Proud To Present . . . received its European premiere at the Bush Theatre, London, on 28 February 2014.
Author: John C. Holm
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1955-10
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780822210627
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE STORY: Marcia Elder, a retired village school teacher, lives alone in her family home in Vermont. She is very happy in her lovely country house, but she begins to think about the possibility of finding a companion who will care for her as she g
Author: Keith L. Bryant
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2014-09-01
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 1623492084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of "high culture" in the Southwest. Humans create culture, but in the Southwest, Bryant argues, the land itself has also influenced that creation. "Incredible light, natural grandeur, . . . and a geography at once beautiful and yet brutal molded societies that sprang from unique cultural sources." The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness—an experience of place—that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture. Bryant also examines a paradox of Southwestern cultural life. Southwesterners take pride in their cultural distinctiveness, yet they struggled to win recognition for their achievements in "high culture." A dynamic tension between those seeking to re-create a Western European culture and those desiring one based on regional themes and resources continues to stimulate creativity. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted.
Author: J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-17
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0813156491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twentieth-century authors and filmmakers have created a pantheon of mavericks—some macho, others angst-ridden—who often cross a metaphorical boundary among the literal ones of Anglo, Native American, and Hispanic cultures. Douglas Canfield examines the concept of borders, defining them as the space between states and cultures and ideologies, and focuses on these border crossings as a key feature of novels and films about the region. Canfield begins in the Old Southwest of Faulkner's Mississippi, addressing the problem of slavery; travels west to North Texas and the infamous Gainesville Hanging of Unionists during the Civil War; and then follows scalpers into the Southwest Borderlands. He then turns to the area of the Gadsden Purchase, known for its outlaws and Indian wars, before heading south of the border for the Yaqui persecution and the Mexican Revolution. Alongside such well-known works as Go Down Moses, The Wild Bunch, Broken Arrow, Gringo Viejo, and Blood Meridian, Canfield discusses novels and films that tell equally compelling stories of the region. Protagonists face various identity crises as they attempt border crossings into other cultures or mindsets—some complete successful crossings, some go native, and some fail. He analyzes figures such as Geronimo, Doc Holliday, and Billy the Kid alongside less familiar mavericks as they struggle for identity, purpose, and justice.
Author: W. C. Jameson
Publisher: august house
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780874830828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects legends and lore of buried treasure in the American Southwest, with maps showing locations
