Border Culture
Published on 9. February 2010
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-313-35820-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera. This enlightening and comprehensive collection will no doubt help readers better understand border culture.
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. Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera. This enlightening and comprehensive collection will no doubt help readers better understand border culture.
Reviews / Votes
Obviously suitable as a curriculum supplement text book, Border Culture is also very appropriate for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in contemporary Mexican/American border issues. * Midwest Book Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-35820-3 (9780313358203)
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ILAN STAVANS has been called the czar of Latino culture in the United States by the New York Times and Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast by the Washington Post. Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture and Amherst College and the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, the Antonia Pantoja Award, Chile's Presidential Medal, and the Ruben Dario Distinction. He earned an Emmy nomination as host of the PBS show La Plaza: Conversations with Ilan Stavans. He has taught at Columbia University, Oberlin College, and Smith College, among other institutions. He is the author of numerous publications, including Encyclopedia Latina (2005) and the forthcoming Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin Music.
Content
Series Foreword by Ilan Stavans
Introduction
I CONSIDERATIONS
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 Gutierrez-Jones
Aliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of the Border Patrol Museum
Eduardo Barrera
II TESTIMONIES
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 197
A Dream Ilan Stavans
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
Introduction
I CONSIDERATIONS
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 Gutierrez-Jones
Aliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of the Border Patrol Museum
Eduardo Barrera
II TESTIMONIES
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 197
A Dream Ilan Stavans
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Contributors