The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories by Américo Paredes

By Américo Paredes

The tradition clash that ruled the border area in the course of the time of Texas’ transition clear of Mexican political prestige and tradition to that of the U.S. is the most concept for those tales. listed here are stories of revolutionaries and guerrilla warriors refracted obliquely in most cases throughout the eyes of youngsters who're at once affected of their faculties and households by means of the political surroundings. because the identify tale shows, there's an ongoing conflict inside of those pages among the Mexican previous and the yank destiny; it isn't just a story of the fight for cultural survival, as one language confronts the opposite, as land tenancy shifts, as new structures of legislation and monetary association come into position, however it can be the story of the typical people suffering to outlive economically, culturally, and spiritually within the face of swift swap. a few of the tales list one other form of cultural war of words: Mexican-American squaddies at warfare in Korea and residing in Japan. In those tales, all of the assumptions approximately race, tradition and politics come into sharp concentration as Mexican american citizens, a U.S. nationwide minority, now need to locate their emotional and cultural house in an international that has develop into a battlefield a great deal just like the one who remodeled northern Mexico into the Southwest United States.

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