Border Culture

Informationen zum Autor Ilan Stavans , PhD, is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword by Ilan Stavans Introduction I CONSIDERATIONS La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought Mario T. García 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 Gutiérrez-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 Río Grande Cecilio García-Camarillo Pocho Pioneer Richard Rodriguez I Could Only Fight Back in My Poetry Guillermo Gómez-Peña 197 A Dream Ilan Stavans Selected Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors ...

Product details

• Authors: Ilan Stavans
• Assisted by: Ilan Stavans (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2010
• EAN: 9780313358203
• ISBN: 978-0-313-35820-3
• Series: Ilan Stavans Library of Latino; The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization; Ilan Stavans Library of Latino; The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Latin America, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Latino and Hispanic Studies; Race and Ethnicity