Korean Love Songs from Klail City Death Trip (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Roland Hinojosa-Smith
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Poems and prose sketches
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry, War fiction, Sketch, War poetry
- Subjects: Racism, War, Mexican Americans, Military life or service, Soldiers, Bilingualism, Korean War
- Locales: Texas
Rafe Buenrostro, Rolando Hinojosa's autobiographical character in this third installment of the Klail City series, steps outside the cultural context in which readers were first introduced to him in two earlier novels, Sketches of the Valley, and Other Works and Klail City: A Novel. Because this story is removed from Rafe's accustomed Tex-Mex environment with its bilingual-bicultural atmosphere, Hinojosa wrote it in English rather than Spanish.
Korean Love Songs from Klail City Death Trip is a daring book. The first half consists of a series of poems,...
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