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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780736303321

Titolo

Border culture / / edited by Ilan Stavans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif., : Greenwood, c2010

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Greenwood, , 2010

ISBN

9786612558900

1-282-55890-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)

Collana

The Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization

Disciplina

306.0972/1

Soggetti

Mexican-American Border Region Social life and customs

Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

La frontera : the border as symbol and reality in Mexican-American thought / Mario T. Garcia -- The great wall of capital / Mike Davis -- Establishing shots of the border : the fence and the river / Claire F. Fox -- Lola Casanova : tropes of mestizaje and frontiers of race / Robert McKee Irwin -- Serpent tongues, social hierarchies, and national citizenship : the splitting of border languages and cultures between Latina/o youths / Cynthia L. Bejarano -- Mission denial : the development of historical amnesia / Carl Gutierrea-Jones -- Aliens in heterotopia : an intertextual reading of the border patrol museum / Eduardo Barrera -- Great river / Paul Horgan -- Nothing to declare : welcome to Tijuana / Juan Villoro -- With the smooth rhythm of her eyelashes / Luis Humberto Crosthwaite -- Talking to the Rio Grande / Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo -- Pocho pioneer / Richard Rodriguez -- I could only fight back in my poetry / Guillermo Gomez-Pena -- A dream / Ilan Stavans.

Sommario/riassunto

The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays representative of the tangled experiences and issues central to life between cultures.    Divided into two sections, Border Culture covers topics essential to better understanding this often misunderstood



region and state-of-mind. The first section, ""Considerations,"" culls essays covering socio-economic and political topics illustrating the hyper reality of life and living on La Frontera. Sectio