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King of the Chicanos
Manuel Ramos
其他書名
A Novel
出版Wings Press, 2010
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / Hispanic & Latino
ISBN09167276459780916727642
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TKIeAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Both heroic and tragic, this novel captures the spirit, energy, and imagination of the 1960s' Chicano movementa massive and intense struggle across a broad spectrum of political and cultural issuesthrough the passionate story of the King of the Chicanos, Ramon Hidalgo. From his very humble beginnings through the tumultuous decades of being a migrant farm worker, door-to-door salesman, prison inmate, political hack, and radical activist, the novel relates Hidalgo s personal failures and self-destructive personality amid the political turmoil of the times. With a gradual acceptance of his destiny as a leader and hero of the people, this impassioned novel relates the maturation of one man while encapsulating the fever of the Chicano movement."