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Rolando Hinojosa is a Texas writer with his sense of place centered in the Texas Valley, a world in itself and a place recognizable as a discrete community. But Hinojosa's work transcends the regional, transcends the Valley, transcends Texas, while it remains rooted in all three.

Hinojosa is treated here from the perspective of his place in the mainstream of American literature and with his attempts to write works that speak to a large and more diverse audience, rather than from the perspective of his place within the world of Texas-Mexican literature. Joyce Lee does not neglect the regional aspects of Hinojosa's works, but puts them into the context of what they say about the vitality of American culture at large and about the Mexican culture's variations of the American Dream.

Covers Hinojosa's full-length books-- Dear Rafe , Klail City , The Useless Servants , The Valley , Partners in Crime , and Rites and Witnesses --as well as his essays and articles.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• 1 American Odyssey(p. 1)
• 2 The Río Grande Valley(p. 27)
• 3 Marking the Path(p. 56)
• 4 Lying to with Sails Set(p. 85)
• 5 A Change in Direction(p. 117)
• 6 The End of a Journey(p. 163)
• 7 Paradise Lost and Found(p. 195)
• Works Cited(p. 207)
• Index(p. 217)

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CHOICE Review

Very appropriate for the "Texas Writers Series," Lee's study demonstrates the Chicano writer's place in the canon of regional writing. However, Lee's objective is to go further, to ensure the writer a berth in American letters, to illuminate the qualities of Hinojosa's work that make him a universal literary figure. Lee groups nine individual, yet interrelated, novels that constitute his concept of the "Klail City Death Trip Series" (he makes clear that the "series" comes from the book's central themes and its recurring characters, and not by a previously conceived scheme between the author and a publisher). The result is a useful work for those who do not know much about Hinojosa's rich production (both his triumphs and his less successful works). Regarding the novels outside the scope of "Chicano criticism"--to spotlight the themes in Hinojosa's work that place him along such world-renowned regional authors as Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, and Anthony Powell--Lee demonstrates that the driving force behind the series is the quintessential search for the "American dream," and he succeeds in making the connections that the reader needs to become interested in individual works and in the entire production of the prolific writer and scholar. Hinojosa's Americanness and his roots in the Texas valley shine through in this accessibly written and informative critical work. At the same time he emerges as a promising figure of letters in a universal literary canon. S. T. Clark California State University, San Marcos

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Joyce Glover Lee's research specialties are women and minority writers of the Southwest. She is currently teaching at the University of North Texas in Denton while working on monographs on Denise Chávez and Oveta Culp Hobby.