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Américo Paredes : in his own words, an authorized biography /
Amrico Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. With the publication of "With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958, Paredes soon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Tex. :
University of North Texas Press,
©2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Al filo ;
no. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Amrico Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. With the publication of "With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958, Paredes soon emerged as a challenger to the status quo. His book questioned the mythic nature of the Texas Rangers and provided an alternative counter-cultural narrative to the existing traditional narratives. He is credited with introducing the concept of Greater Mexico, decades before its wider acceptance today among t |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 180 pages) : photographs |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441678805 1441678808 9781574413328 9781597346009 1597346004 1574413325 1282889826 9781282889828 |