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Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream Texas Writers Series ; No. 5
author
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Lee, Joyce Glover.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574410237
print isbn13
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9781574410235
ebook isbn13
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9780585235844
language
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English
subject
Hinojosa, Rolando--Criticism and interpretation, National characteristics, American, in literature, Mexican Americans in literature, Success in literature, Texas--In literature, Myth in literature.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PS3558.I545Z76 1997eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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Hinojosa, Rolando--Criticism and interpretation, National characteristics, American, in literature, Mexican Americans in literature, Success in literature, Texas--In literature, Myth in literature.
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Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream
by Joyce Glover Lee
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TEXAS WRITERS SERIES NUMBER 5 General Editor James Ward Lee
1997, Joyce Glover Lee
All rights reserved
Permissions: University of North Texas Press PO Box 311336 Denton TX 76203-1336
First printed in 1997 in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lee, Joyce Glover, 1954 Rolando Hinojosa and the American dream / Joyce Glover Lee. p. cm.(Texas writers series : no. 5) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 1-57441-023-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Hinojosa, RolandoCriticism and interpretation. 2. Mexican Americans in literature. 3. Success in literature. 4. Texas In literature. 5. Myth in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS3558.I545Z76 1997 813'.54dc21 96-50027 CIP
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Dedication
In Memoriam Gordon Louis Glover 19211995
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1 American Odyssey
1
2 The Ro Grande Valley: A Cultural Marriage
27
3 Marking the Path: The Death Trip in Sequence
56
4 "Lying to with Sails Set": The Trip Begins
85
5 A Change in Direction
117
6 The End of a Journey
163
7 Paradise Lost and Found
195
Works Cited
207
Index
217
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Many good friends came to my aid while I was preparing this manuscript for publication. Their practical assistance and emotional support made my work easier, and I am in their debt. In particular, I wish to thank Giles R. Mitchell, J. F. Kobler, and James T. F. Tanner of the UNT Department of English for their advice and their interest in this project. Don Graham of the University of Texas at Austin gave me invaluable help by reading and criticizing the final manuscript, helping me to make it a better work than it would have been otherwise. I would also like to thank James W. Lee for his help and consideration.
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1 American Odyssey
Despite the fact that most of the criticism of Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series1 may be termed "Chicano criticism," and despite the fact that much of this criticism offers significant insight into the Death Trip, two equally significant facts are that this body of criticism tends toward repetition, as it builds a fence around Hinojosa's work, claiming it primarily for a Chicano audience.2 It is my hope to knock a few gaps in that fence. I intend to look at Hinojosa's Death Trip Series from what I see as a broader perspective and to place Hinojosa's work within the larger canon of that vague, elusive body that we call "American literature." In doing so, I do not intend to deny or to ignore Hinojosa's
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Mexican-American subject matter or his regional orientation, but simply to consider them as elements of a larger construct.3 The nine books that make up the Death Trip Series fit the definitions of the "sequence novel," a well-understood but still largely undefined group of novels treating a single set of characters or a single place or theme developed through the generations of a specific locale. Hardy's "Wessex novels," Trollope's "Barset novels," Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, and Faulkner's rather looser series, the "Yoknapatawpha novels," are examples. The sequence novel, or to use the French term, the roman fleuve, allows an author greater range than a single novel, and it is this extended range that helps to take Hinojosa's novels and poems outside the confines of the Ro Grande Valley and into the broad stream of American literature.
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