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Texas Literature

A Case StudyFirst Edition ©2010 Texas Advisory Board; Dagberto Gilb

Texas Literature: A Case Study offers a sampling of stories, poems, essays, images, and historical documents from the state Molly Ivins affectionately called "cantankerous and ridiculously friendly." In his introduction to the book, Dagoberto Gilb writes of the state he calls home: "If...
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Texas Literature by Texas Advisory Board; Dagberto Gilb - First Edition, 2010 from Macmillan Student Store

Texas Literature: A Case Study offers a sampling of stories, poems, essays, images, and historical documents from the state Molly Ivins affectionately called "cantankerous and ridiculously friendly." In his introduction to the book, Dagoberto Gilb writes of the state he calls home: "If for no other reason than that it lasted ten years as a country all its own, ‘region’ does not pertain to it." Texas is in a category all its own.
We invite you to enjoy this collection and hope it enriches your own perspective on the Lone Star state. As Gilb writes: "¡Que viva Texas! Onward and adelante!"

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"This case study is an engaging introduction to Texas literature — of interest both to native Texans…and to all the less fortunate folks who were born somewhere else."
— Cheryl Clements, Blinn College — Bryan Campus

This brief book succeeds admirably in capturing the diversity of Texas literature. Its blend of voices and genres makes the casebook appropriate for a range of literature and composition courses. 
— Bob Wyckoff, Texas A&M University

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Dagoberto Gilb

TEXAS: A GENERAL INTRODUCTION
essay: Don Graham, Lone Star Literature: What Makes Texas Texas?

essay: Molly Ivins, Is Texas America?
essay: Walter Prescott Webb, The Texans Touch the Plains

A COLLECTION OF TEXAS LITERATURE
poem: Gloria Anzaldúa, To Live in the Borderland
essay: Gloria Anzaldúa, The Homeland, Aztlán: El Otro México

story: Rick Bass, The Windy Day

speech: Chief Ten Bears, The Case of the Comanches, October 20, 1867

story: Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek

story: Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
memoir: J. Frank Dobie, An Old Trail Driver Tells His Story

story: Dagoberto Gilb, Truck
story: Christine Granados, The Bride
essay: John Graves, Goodbye to a River

tale: O. Henry, Jimmy Hayes and Muriel

essay: Macarena Hernández, One Family, Two Homelands
poem: Rolando Hinojosa, Night Burial Detail
speech: Sam Houston, The Inaugural Address, December 21, 1859

essay: Molly Ivins, Texas Women: True Grit and All the Rest
speech: Barbara Jordan, DNC Keynote Address, July 13, 1992
memoir: Mary Karr, The Liar’s Club: Texas, 1961

story: Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
poems: Harryette Mullen, Las Locas; Momma Sayings

4 myths: Native American Tribes of Texas: Caddo, Kiowa Apache, and Tejas/Hasinai
2 poems: Naomi Shihab Nye, Hello; Famous
ballad: Américo Paredes, With His Pistol In His Hand: The Texas Rangers

story: Katherine Anne Porter, The Grave
document: The State of Texas, The Declaration of Independence, April 6, 1813
document: The State of Texas, The Constitution, April 17, 1813

List of illustrations

Texas Advisory Board

Dagoberto Gilb

Dagoberto Gilb is the author of Before the End, After the Beginning, The Flowers, Woodcuts of Women, Gritos, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, and The Magic of Blood.　He also edited the canonical Hecho en Tejas: 　An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature. He was a union, high-rise carpenter for over a decade. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a range of magazines regional and national, including The New Yorker and Harper's, and anthologies such as The Best American Essays and The O’Henry Prize Stories, and are reprinted widely. Among his honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and his work has been a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award. Gilb makes his home in Austin, and he is the executive director of CentroVictoria, a center for Mexican American literature and culture at the University of Houston-Victoria.