Desperadoes

Author : John Hallwas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252078047
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dime Novel Desperadoes written by John Hallwas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhilarating true tale of two major American desperadoes who once captivated the nation

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Publisher : Asociatia LiterNet
ISBN 13 : 9737893247
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium written by and published by Asociatia LiterNet. This book was released on with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rafael Acosta Morales
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268200777
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes written by Rafael Acosta Morales and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence. The drug battles, outlaw culture, and violence that permeate the U.S.-Mexican frontier serve as scenery and motivation for a wide swath of North American culture. In this innovative study, Rafael Acosta Morales ties the pride that many communities felt for heroic tales of banditry and rebels to the darker repercussions of the violence inflicted by the representatives of the law or the state. Narratives on bandits, cowboys, and desperadoes promise redistribution, regeneration, and community, but they often bring about the very opposite of those goals. This paradox is at the heart of Acosta Morales’s book. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines the relationship between affect, narrative, and violence surrounding three historical archetypes—social bandits (often associated with the drug trade), cowboys, and desperadoes—and how these narratives create affective loops that recreate violent structures in the Mexican American frontier. Acosta Morales analyzes narrative in literary, cinematic, and musical form, examining works by Américo Paredes, Luis G. Inclán, Clint Eastwood, Rolando Hinojosa, Yuri Herrera, and Cormac McCarthy. The book focuses on how narratives of Mexican social banditry become incorporated into the social order that bandits rose against and how representations of violence in the U.S. weaponize narratives of trauma in order to justify and expand the violence that cowboys commit. Finally, it explains the usage of universality under the law as a means of criminalizing minorities by reading the stories of Mexican American men who were turned into desperadoes by the criminal law system. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes demonstrates how these stories led to recreated violence and criminalization of minorities, a conversation especially important during this time of recognizing social inequality and social injustices. The book is part of a growing body of scholarship that applies theoretical approaches to borderlands studies, and it will be of interest to students and scholars in American and Mexican history and literature, border studies, literary criticism, cultural criticism, and related fields.

Author : Ruth E. Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Camp Desperadoes written by Ruth E. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes of New Mexico written by Francis Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of seventeen outlaws in New Mexico in the 19th century.

Author : Shannon Dudley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195175476
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music from Behind the Bridge written by Shannon Dudley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Music from behind the Bridge' tells the story of the steelband a symbol of Trinidadian culture, from the point of view of musicians who overcame disadvantages of poverty and prejudice with their extraordinary ambition.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belgravia written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Gorman
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425180082
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes written by Edward Gorman and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen stories about desperate men in desperate times in the Old West are featured in this collection with works by Western tale-spinners Louis L'Amour, Loren D. Estleman, Bill Pronzini, Bill Gulick, and others.

Author : Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780764225765
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Downtown Desperadoes written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ricky and his friends and family forego a planned vacation to return to New York City to help an old friend, they become involved in a mystery which includes blackmail, arson, and lost love.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480423874
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes written by Ron Hansen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRon Hansen’s engrossing novel of the violent life and criminal exploits of the Dalton gang, as remembered by its last surviving member/divDIV From his home in Los Angeles, an aging Emmett Dalton reminisces about his glory days in America’s Wild West. Now sixty-five years old, and a Hollywood fixture, he makes a comfortable living selling stories of his earlier exploits to movie studios. But years before, he rode with his two brothers—charming, handsome, charismatic Bob, and the cold-eyed killer Grat, so wild and unpredictable that even his own family was afraid of him—committing brazen acts of robbery, bootlegging, and murder. As the last surviving member of the infamous Dalton gang, it’s Emmett’s responsibility to keep their legend alive. He has resolved to tell the full truth about the fabled career of the three criminal brothers and Eugenia Moore, the former schoolmarm who was an indispensable partner in their crimes, even if that truth turns out to be a darker, more painful, and less heroic picture than Hollywood’s moguls would make it out to be./divDIV /divDIVThe critically acclaimed debut novel by bestselling author Ron Hansen, Desperadoes is a masterwork of historical fiction that brings a fabled era of American outlaws and violence to breathtaking life./div