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 regional, transcends the Valley, transcends Texas, while it remains rooted in all three.

Hinojosa is treated here from the perspective of his place in the mainstream of American literature and with his attempts to write works that speak to a larger and more diverse audience, rather than from the perspective of his place within the world of Texas-Mexican literature. Joyce Lee does not neglect the regional aspects of Hinojosa’s works, but puts them into the context of what they say about the vitality of American culture at large and about the Mexican culture’s variations of the American Dream. Lee covers Hinojosa’s full-length books—Dear Rafe, Klail City, The Useless Servants, The Valley, Partners in Crime, and Rites and Witnesses as well as his essays and articles.

JOYCE GLOVER LEE's research specialties are women and minority writers of the Southwest. She is currently teaching at the University of North Texas in Denton while working on monographs on Denise Chávez and Oveta Culp Hobby.

Number Five: Texas Writers Series

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Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream
1-57441-023-7
$25.00s

5x7. 192 pp.
Bib. Index.
Literary Criticism. Multicultural.

Publication Date: July 1997

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