RARA-AVIS: Ride the Pink Horse
michael david sharp (msharp@umich.edu)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:15:23 -0400 (EDT)
The line in Hughes' *RTPHorse* about the Indians waiting the
gringos and
spanish into non-existence (sorry if that isn't an exact quote)
comes from
a romanticized view of the indigenous people (this is how Pila
ties in, I
think). The book promulgates this notion that the people are
like the land
somehow -- they were there long before colonization, and
they'll be there
long after. I have some scattered ideas on this as I taught
this novel
last term -- I'm curious what others think. Michael
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