{"product_id":"literary-san-antonio-9780875656878","title":"Literary San Antonio","description":"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here the Mexican Revolution was called into being, and here were the political and literary origins of the Chicano Movement. \u003ci\u003eLiterary San Antonio\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003efrontera\u003c\/i\u003e literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This city, with its winding, still-sleepy river and its story-shrouded springs; its ancient \u003ci\u003eacequias\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bryce Milligan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Christian University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780875656878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Christian University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42935375396979,"sku":"9.78088E+12","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_de7624e2-a9e1-49c7-920c-5bdc12c82c24.jpg?v=1742909317","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/literary-san-antonio-9780875656878","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}