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El Paso Del Norte: Stories On The Border (Western Literature Series)
Richard Yañez
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Description for El Paso Del Norte: Stories On The Border (Western Literature Series)
Paperback. A collection of short stories that examine Chicano lives rooted in the border region of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The Chicano characters in this collection live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders - between two countries, languages, and cultures. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 195.
The Chicano characters in Richard Yanez's debut story collection live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders-between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death. The teenaged narrator of ""Desert Vista"" copes with a new school and a first love while negotiating the boundaries between his family's tenuous middle-class status and the working-class community in which they have come to live. Tony Amoroza, the protagonist of ""Amoroza Tires,"" wrestles with the overwhelming grief from his wife's death until an unexpected legacy prompts him with new faith. Maria del Valle, ""La ... Read more
The Chicano characters in Richard Yanez's debut story collection live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders-between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death. The teenaged narrator of ""Desert Vista"" copes with a new school and a first love while negotiating the boundaries between his family's tenuous middle-class status and the working-class community in which they have come to live. Tony Amoroza, the protagonist of ""Amoroza Tires,"" wrestles with the overwhelming grief from his wife's death until an unexpected legacy prompts him with new faith. Maria del Valle, ""La ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874175332
SKU
V9780874175332
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About Richard Yañez
Richard Yanez, born and raised in El Paso, Texas, is a graduate of New Mexico State University and Arizona State University. He has taught at Autioch College, Colorado College, and has been a Fellow at Saint Mary's College Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership. His fiction has appeared in Our Working Lives: Short Stories of People and Work and was featured ... Read more
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