Twilight Troubadour: Stories Serenading the American Southwest Contributor(s): Gish, Robert Franklin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1632932598 ISBN-13: 9781632932594 Publisher: Sunstone Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2019006383 |
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6" W x 9" (0.50 lbs) 150 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Demographic Orientation - Small Town |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Growing up in a Spanish American culture in the American West at the turn of the twentieth century invites assimilation, a process made all the more conflicted through the evolving stages of individuation and the tensions of political correctness and hyphenated identities: Anglo-American, Spanish-American, Mexican-American, Native American, and the subcultures of Stompers, Pachucos, Chicanos, Cholos, Indios, and Squares. This book contains a dozen interconnected stories set against these laminated ethnicities. Whether read as love songs or laments these soul stories all serenade the American Southwest and its allure as a landscape of adventure and romance during the transition from Old to New West. It is said that a land determines a people and is determined by them, a belief told lyrically and poignantly in these story serenades. Includes Readers Guide. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gish, Robert Franklin: - Robert Franklin Gish is the author of numerous works of fiction, memoir, biography, and essay. He teaches writing at the University of New Mexico where he is a distinguished alumnus and is an emeritus scholar and professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and former Director of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University. Gish is a member of the Authors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, and Western Writers of America. He is also an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. |