And as a reminder, we will also be having a raffle and give away 2 copies to the lucky winners. This is a really great opportunity for Caballero is a rare novel, published by the Texas A&M University Press.
We will be selling Caballero by Jovita Gonzales & Eve Raleigh (Raul Coronado's recommended novel) if you would like to have your own personal copy.
RSVP here for the event: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4257690868?ref=ebtnebregn
Overview
Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: A Historical Novel, a milestone in Mexican-American and Texas literature written during the 1930s and 1940s, centers on a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas during a time of tumultuous change. After covering the American military occupation of South Texas, the story involves the reader in romances between two young lovers from opposing sides during the military conflict of the U.S.-Mexico War. Caballero's young protagonists fall in love but face struggles with race, class, gender and sexual contradictions. An introduction by Jose E. Limon, epilogue by Maria Cotera, and foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck offer a clear picture of the importance of the work to the study of Mexican-American and Texas history and to the feminist critique of culture. This work, long lost in a collection of private papers and unavailable until now, serves as a literary ethnography of South Texas-Mexican folklore customs and traditions.(http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/caballero-jovita-gonzalez/1101601051)
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