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Highlights
- San Antonio is often described as the "mother" of Texas cities--the oldest and, for two and a half centuries, the largest city in Texas.
- About the Author: As the editor and publisher of Wings Press, BRYCE MILLIGAN has published well over a hundred San Antonio writers and artists.
- 456 Pages
- Literary Collections, American
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About the Book
"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.Book Synopsis
San Antonio is often described as the "mother" of Texas cities--the oldest and, for two and a half centuries, the largest city in Texas. To many it is, as novelist Larry McMurtry once famously proclaimed, "the one truly lovely city in the state." Long recognized as a cultural crossroads between two continents, writers in San Antonio, both native and visiting, have had a significant effect upon the city's literary and cultural landscape. Novels were being written in the city by the late 1830s. Nineteenth century writers like Frederick Law Olmsted, Sydney Lanier, and O. Henry wrote effusively about San Antonio; Oscar Wilde found here "a thrill of strange pleasure." Here the Mexican Revolution was called into being, and here were the political and literary origins of the Chicano Movement. Literary San Antonio provides dozens of examples of the interplay and cross-pollination of Anglo and Latino literary forms, ideas, and traditions that led to the creation of a unique borderlands or frontera literature. This city, with its winding, still-sleepy river and its story-shrouded springs; its ancient acequias and missions, now acknowledged as valued "world heritage" sites; its sacred battle grounds and historic military forts and bases; its several unique neighborhoods and barrios that have produced and been celebrated by generations of writers; its rich heritage of heroism and revolutionary passion; its endlessly celebratory ability to revel in its multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual roots and branches . . . this city is a good place to write, to write about, and to wander with a book in hand.About the Author
As the editor and publisher of Wings Press, BRYCE MILLIGAN has published well over a hundred San Antonio writers and artists. A prize-winning author himself in several genres, Milligan was instrumental in the creation of the San Antonio Writers Collection at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Latino Collection and Resource Center of the San Antonio Public Library.Dimensions (Overall): 10.2 Inches (H) x 7.3 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 456
Genre: Literary Collections
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Bryce Milligan
Language: English
Street Date: February 27, 2018
TCIN: 90761881
UPC: 9780875656878
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-1441
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 2.3 pounds
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