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(0)José Eduardo Limón
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"Several biographies of Américo Paredes have been published over the last decade, yet they generally overlook the paradoxical nature of his life's work. Embarking on an in-depth, critical exploration of the significant body of work produced by Paredes, José E. Limón (one of Paredes's students and now himself one of the world's leading scholars in Mexican American studies) puts the spotlight on Paredes as a scholar/citizen who bridged multiple arenas...
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"Combining shrewd applications of current cultural theory with compelling autobiography and elegant prose, José E. Limón works at the intersection of anthropology, folklore, popular culture, history, and literary criticism. A native of South Texas, he renders a historical and ethnographic account of its rich Mexican-American folk culture. This folk culture, he shows--whether expressed through male joking rituals, ballroom polka dances, folk healing,...
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The story of a wealthy land-owning ranchero family named Olivares in South Texas at the turn of the 20th century, told as a series of vignettes held together by a loose narrative. The novel deals with the complex tensions between nationalities and races in the border country. The land, deeded to the Olivares family in 1764 by Revilla Gigedo, the Viceroy of New Spain, now technically belongs to America because of the U.S.-Mexico War. The rancheros...