The Valley (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Roland Hinojosa-Smith
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the 1970’s
- Setting: The Texas-Mexico border
- Principal Characters: Rafa Buenrostro, Don Manuel Guzmán, Jehú Malacra, Aunt Chedes Briones, Don Víctor, Gilberto Castañeda, Baldemar Cordero, Ernesto Tamez
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, 1940’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, West, U.S., Multiculturalism, Mexican Americans, Mexico or Mexicans, Bilingualism, Latinos, Texas
- Locales: Mexico, Texas
The Novel
This collection of sketches about Rolando Hinojosa’s fictional Belken County, situated just north of the Mexican border in Texas, was Hinojosa’s first major publication. Originally, it was rendered in Spanish with English translations by Gustávo Valadéz and José Reyna under the title Estampas del valle y otras obras/Sketches of the Valley and Other Works. Hinojosa himself translated it under the present title in 1983, adding some material and a set of photographs from his family album. The collection constitutes a novel by some definitions of the term,...
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