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1 online resource (xl, 416 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"An anthology of literature from and about San Antonio, Texas, from its early days to the present, including poetry, fiction, journalism, history, political writings, and drama"--Provided by publisher. |
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Drama -- Driving wheel / Sterling Houston -- Fiction: from Ambrosia de Letinez, or The first Texian novel / Anthony Ganilh -- The enchanted kiss / O. Henry -- Postcript: O. Henry and the bridge at the heart of the city / Bryce Milligan -- Saint's day / Josephina Niggli -- A jury of his peers / Jay Brandon -- From Remember Ben Clayton / Stephen Harrigan -- Loteria: la rosa / Mary Guerrero Milligan -- from Wanderer springs / Robert Flynn -- Patriotism / Nan Cuba -- I explain myself / Geoff Rips -- from The truth -- La chola / Norma E. Cantu -- from Big Red tequila / Rick Riordan -- Live and let live / Claude Stanush -- Bien pretty / Sandra Cisneros. |
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Poetry: Arise, Chicano! / Angela De Hoyos -- Hermano -- How to eat crow on a cold sunday morning -- A lesson in semantics -- This river here / Carmen Tafolla -- El mercado / farmers' market -- San Antonio is a young Yanaguana woman -- Right in one language -- Como embrujada / Evangelina Vigil -- Was fun running 'round descalza -- Por la calle Zarzamora -- Will you hold my bullet, please? / Naomi Shihab Nye -- West side -- The rider -- Because of libraries we can say these things -- Frankly -- Secret missions / Robert Bonazzi -- Once in a blue moon -- Intermezzi -- Eos and the train horns / Bryce Milligan -- San Antonio nights -- Trusting steel -- Homesteaders (in the introduction) / Rosemary Catacalos -- La casa -- Learning endurance from Lupe at the J&A Ice House -- Swallow wings -- Listen, querido, they're playing our song, or, Summer ritual with a poet friend -- High sky / Wendy Barker -- Inheritance -- Trash -- A mother's October / Mariana Aitches -- Winter solstice -- Fishing for light / Deborah Paredez -- Crape myrtle, 1943 -- St. Joske's -- Bustillo drive grocery -- Poem for the King William dancers -- Earl Abel's / Jim LaVilla-Havelin -- In the courtyard -- From some trees -- Cicadas / Carol Coffee Reposa -- Great horned owl -- Alamo Plaza at night -- Bar America / Jacinto Jesus Cardona -- Chicharras -- Pan dulce -- Avocado Avenue -- To chucho would have you believe / Celeste Guzman Mendoza -- About faith -- Crooked pinky -- Girl strolls down Nogalitos Street / Amalia Ortiz -- These hands which have never picked cotton -- The night Ram died -- Sundays after breakfast: a lesson in cotton picking / Laurie Ann Guerrero -- Esperanza tells her friends the story of La Llorona -- Sundays after breakfast: a lesson in speech -- The man who gives bad directions in downtown San Antonio / Jenny Browne -- There's a slow green river I've been living by |
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Journalism & political essays: The Mexican question in the Southwest / Emma Tenayuca -- Letter from San Antonio: No retreat! No surrender! / Jan Jarboe Russell -- The meaning of Chicano / Ricardo Sanchez -- Bridging cultures / Cary Clack |
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From a Comecrudo dancing song / Bryce Milligan -- Historical writing: Naming San Antonio / Frank W. Jennings -- The wrong side of the river: from old Villita / Maury Maverick Sr. -- An unexpected fiesta / Zebulon Pike -- The fall of the Alamo / Andrea Castanon Villanueva (Madam Candelaria) -- After the Alamo ... San Antonio, 1836-1842 / Antonio Menchaca -- from A life crossing borders / Santiago Tafolla -- from A journey through Texas / Frederick Law Olmsted -- San Antonio de Bexar: an historical sketch / Sidney Lanier -- The yellow rose of Texas: decision at the Alamo / Steven G. Kellman |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
San Antonio (Tex.) -- History.
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San Antonio (Tex.) -- Social life and customs.
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San Antonio (Tex.) -- Intellectual life.
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San Antonio (Tex.) -- Poetry.
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San Antonio (Tex.) -- Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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History.
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Poetry.
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Fiction.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Milligan, Bryce, 1953- editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Literary San Antonio. Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2018] 9780875656878 (DLC) 2017049443 |
| ISBN |
9780875656939 electronic book |
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0875656935 electronic book |
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9780875656878 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0875656870 hardcover alkaline paper |
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