Bandits, captives, heroines, and saints; cultural icons of Mexico's northwest borderlands.9780816648573 Bandits, captives, heroines, and saints; cultural icons of Mexico's northwest borderlands. Irwin, Robert McKee For the Maryland politician, see . Robert McKee is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. . U. of Minnesota Press 2007 331 pages $22.50 Paperback Cultural studies of the Americas; 20 F1314 Irwin (Spanish, U. of California at Davis) examines shifting and contested narratives of culturally iconic figures of the 19th century Mexican northwest borderlands consisting of present-day Sonora, Baja California Baja California, state, Mexico Baja California (Span.: bä`hä kälēfōr`nyä), state (1990 pop. 1,660,855), 27,628 sq mi (71,576 sq km), NW Mexico, on the Baja California peninsula. Mexicali is the capital. , and western Chihuahua. Reading changing narratives of such figures as social bandit bandit: see brigandage. Joaquin Murrieta Joaquin Murrieta (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (1829–ca. 1853), also called the Mexican or Chilean Robin Hood or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a semi-legendary figure in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. ; Lola Casanova, who shocked Creole society with her marriage to a Seri Indian chief; and Teresa Urrea, worshiped during the Porfiriato as a living saint, La Santa de Cabora, Irwin explores their cultural significations regarding Mexican borderlands culture of the late 19th century and on into the 20th, Mexican and US national cultures and their influence on the borderlands, Mexican American Mexican American n. A U.S. citizen or resident of Mexican descent. Mex  i·can-A·mer culture in the US, and indigenous cultures of the
Mexican borderlands.
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