texas tech university press jun 2015 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In these eight stories that share the same setting across time, Joyce Gibson Roach writes of the place that sparked her treasured West Texas sensibility. Her fictive Horned Toad calls to stand and speak itself into existenceto live again in words. The characters are all familiar West Texas-types speaking in the tongues of dry places.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel is a raucous, hilarious journey through political dangers that come in all shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities, a trip into the wild, sometimes outrageous world of the Texas-Mexico border and all geographical and anatomical points south. Honorae del Castillo runs the family curio shop in the backwater border town of Escandaon, Texas, and fears dying in front of his TV like some six-pack Josae in his barrio. Encouraged by his friend Trotsky, he becomes politically active -- smuggling refugees, airlifting guns to Mexican revolutionaries, negotiating with radical Chicana lesbians -- but the naked truths he faces are more often naked than true and constantly threaten to unman him. When a convoy loaded with humanitarian aid bound for Nicaragua pulls into Escandaon, his journey to becoming a true revolutionary hero begins, first on Escandaon's international bridge and then on the highways of Mexico. But not until both the convoy and Honorae's mortality and manhood are threatened in Guatemala does he finally confront the complications of his love for his wife and daughter, his political principles, the stench of human fear, and ultimately what it means to be a principled man in a screwed-up world'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in children's wear to create costumes for two teenage characters in a Broadway play. Recognizing the growing importance of the teenager in American culture, she launched Emily Wilkens Young Originals. Fashion historian Rebecca Jumper Matheson explores intertwining stories of female agency through the history of Wilkens and her teenage clientele.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Collection of short stories detailing the fictitious lives of people in Horned Toad, Texas'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyses the legal backdrop to the Great Sioux War, asking the hard questions of how treaties were to be honoured and how the US government failed to abide by its sovereign word. While other authors have analysed George Armstrong Custer's tactics and equipment, Wright is the first to investigate the legal and constitutional issues surrounding the US's campaign against the American Indians.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Béxar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Using last wills and testaments as main sources, Amy M. Porter explores the ways in which these documents reveal details about religion, family, economics, and material culture. In addition, the wills speak loudly to the difficulties of frontier life, in which widowhood and child mortality were commonplace.