Bandits, captives, heroines, and saints
Subtitle: cultural icons of Mexico's northwest borderlands
By: Robert McKee Irwin.
Series: Cultural studies of the Americas -- 20
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780816648566; 9780816648573
Subjects: Popular culture -- Mexico, North; Popular culture -- Mexican American Border Region; Symbolism -- Mexico, North; Mexico, North -- Historiography; Mexican-American Border Region -- Historiography; Mexico, North -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The other borderlands; title: The many heads and tales of Joaquín Murrieta; title: Lola Casanova : tropes of mestizaje and frontiers of race; title: The heroines of Guaymas; title: Of sedition and spiritism : La Santa de Cabora; title: Cultural icons of the other borderlands.