{"product_id":"caballero-a-historical-novel","title":"Caballero: A Historical Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eJovita Gonzlez and Eve Raleighs Caballero: A Historical Novel, a milestone in MexicanAmerican and Texas literature written during the 1930s and 1940s, centers on a midnineteenthcentury Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas during a time of tumultuous change.After covering the American military occupation of South Texas, the story involves the reader in romances between young lovers from opposing sides during the military conflict of the USMexico War. The young protagonists fall in love but face struggles with race, class, gender, and sexual contradictions.This work, long lost in a collection of private paper and unavailable until now, serves as a literary enthnography of South TexasMexican folklore customs and traditions as well as a feminist critque of rigid patriarchal culture.With an introduction by Jos E. Limn, epilogue by Mara Cotera, and foreward by Thomas H. Kreneck.JOVITA GONZLEZ was and educator, folklorist, and historian who received her masters degree in history in 1930 from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a protg of J. Frank Dobie and a Rockefeller grant award recipient.EVE RALEIGH is coauthor Margaret Eimers pseudonym. She was residing in Missouri at the time of her death in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Gonz \/ paperback","offer_id":47840072597749,"sku":"DADAX0890967008","price":31.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71_WEhHbd5L_f63b1f09-9488-4642-8a10-29b3c5c4dc03.jpg?v=1773748625","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/caballero-a-historical-novel","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}