
Postcards from the Rio Bravo Border
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Postcards from the Rio Bravo Border presents nearly two hundred images of five significant towns on the lower Rio Bravo-Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, and Villa Acuna. Using multiple images of sites within each city, Arreola tracks changes both within the cities as places and in the ways in which the cities have been pictured for tourist consumption. He makes a strong case that visual imagery has a shaping influence on how we negotiate and think about places, creating a serial scripting or narrating of the place. Arreola also shows how postcard images, when systematically and chronologically arranged, can tell us a great deal about how Mexican border towns have been viewed over time. This innovative visual approach demonstrates that historical imagery, no less than text or maps, can be assembled to tell a compelling geographical story about place and time.
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"Arreola is able to capture the voices (and images) of borderlands residents themselves, the very people who have been most heavily impacted by current policy changes even as their voices have been marginalized and their histories have been decontextualized. . . . [his] use of "view of place" and "place of view" allows him to capture the changing nature of Mexican border towns and to breathe life back into these multidimensional spaces." * American Historical Review * "This is masterful cultural geography with rich visual materials, delivered in a unique and compelling fashion. . . . Very stimulating and well-written." * Journal of Latin American Geography *More details
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Content
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Places and Postcards
1. Rio Bravo Border Towns
2. Postcards
II. Postcard Views
3. Gateways
4. Streets
5. Plazas
6. Attractions
7. Businesses and Landmarks
8. Everyday Life
III. Sight into Site
9. View of the Place, Place of the View
Appendix: Postcard Writings
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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