Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream

by Joyce Glover Lee

Rolando Hinojosa is a Texas writer with his sense of place centered in the Texas Valley, a world in itself and a place recognizable as a discrete community. But Hinojosa's work transcends the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574410237
• ISBN13: 9781574410235
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.3"

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The first study of Hinojosa that seriously evaluates him

Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream studies Hinojosa not just as a "chicano writer," but as a writer whose work takes advantage of both the Mexican American culture and the mainstream culture of the United States. Her thesis is that Hinojosa slowly moves from being absorbed in the mejicano culture to realizing that he--and his characters--must join mainstream America if they are to lead the good life. This book, a Choice Notable Book, does not follow the Chicano party line, and yet Lee does not fail to trace the influence of Mexican American culture on the writer.