The boy kings of Texas : a memoir

The boy kings of Texas : a memoir /

"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-...

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Main Author: Martinez, Domingo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press : Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]
Subjects:
Martinez, Domingo > Childhood and youth.
Martinez, Domingo.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Texas, South > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Journalists.
Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Biography.
South Texas.
United States.
Autobiography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Border Justice 1
  • Chapter 2 His Favorite Place 10
  • Chapter 3 Grampa 13
  • Chapter 4 Curses 21
  • Chapter 5 Vulgaria 25
  • Chapter 6 ¡Oklahoma! 40
  • Chapter 7 Gramma and the Snakes 58
  • Chapter 8 Poo and Piglets 64
  • Chapter 9 Christmas with Grandma 70
  • Chapter 10 The Mimis 85
  • Chapter 11 Dan's First Fight 99
  • Chapter 12 The Oklahoma Joneses 105
  • Chapter 13 In Which Mom Is Introduced to the Barrio 112
  • Chapter 14 Faith 122
  • Chapter 15 Football 145
  • Chapter 16 The Artless Dodger 155
  • Chapter 17 Dan's Second Fight 163
  • Chapter 18 Delta City Repeat 180
  • Chapter 19 Room 124 191
  • Chapter 20 Neighborhood Heroes 218
  • Chapter 21 Cheering up Philippe 224
  • Chapter 22 Crying Uncle 252
  • Chapter 23 Afterward 282
  • Chapter 24 Sleeping with Monsters 288
  • Chapter 25 Dad's Warning 302
  • Chapter 26 Dan's Second to Last Fight. 317
  • Chapter 27 The House that Rock 'n' Roll Built 336
  • Chapter 28 Bioluminescence 340
  • Chapter 29 Home 358
  • Chapter 30 Mom's Story 357
  • Chapter 31 Origins 373
  • Chapter 32 Cheating 335
  • Chapter 33 Cheating II 390
  • Chapter 34 Keep on Truckin' 392
  • Chapter 35 Ten Years Later 394
  • Chapter 36 Dan's Last Fight 397
  • Chapter 37 Settling Accounts 408.

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