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    612-822-4611

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Literary San Antonio

Literary San Antonio

Milligan, Bryce

Hardcover

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0875656870
ISBN13: 9780875656878
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: Feb 27 2018
Pages: 456
Weight: 2.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 7.30 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
San Antonio is often described as the mother of Texas cities--the oldest and, for two and a half centuries, the largest city in Texas. To many it is, as novelist Larry McMurtry once famously proclaimed, the one truly lovely city in the state.

Long recognized as a cultural crossroads between two continents, writers in San Antonio, both native and visiting, have had a significant effect upon the city's literary and cultural landscape. Novels were being written in the city by the late 1830s. Nineteenth century writers like Frederick Law Olmsted, Sydney Lanier, and O. Henry wrote effusively about San Antonio; Oscar Wilde found here a thrill of strange pleasure.

Here the Mexican Revolution was called into being, and here were the political and literary origins of the Chicano Movement. Literary San Antonio provides dozens of examples of the interplay and cross-pollination of Anglo and Latino literary forms, ideas, and traditions that led to the creation of a unique borderlands or frontera literature.

This city, with its winding, still-sleepy river and its story-shrouded springs; its ancient acequias and missions, now acknowledged as valued world heritage sites; its sacred battle grounds and historic military forts and bases; its several unique neighborhoods and barrios that have produced and been celebrated by generations of writers; its rich heritage of heroism and revolutionary passion; its endlessly celebratory ability to revel in its multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual roots and branches . . . this city is a good place to write, to write about, and to wander with a book in hand.

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