With His Pistol In His Hand by Américo Paredes
A Border Ballad and Its Hero
A deeply researched account that reconstructs the life and legend of a Mexican-American folk hero who killed a lawman and sparked a violent manhunt, showing how oral ballads, court records, newspaper accounts, and community memory combined to create conflicting versions of the event; the book analyzes the corrido tradition and the ways language, law, racial tension, and popular storytelling shape identity and justice on the U.S.-Mexico border, arguing that the folk narrative reveals social grievances and cultural resistance that official records obscure.
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- Published
- 1958
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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