What That Pig Said to Jesus

On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life

Philip Garrison (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2017
University of Utah Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-60781-549-5 (ISBN)

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Philip Garrison says his book of essays is ""in praise of mixed feelings"", particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. Following a meandering, though purposeful trail, Garrison catches hillbillies and newer Mexican arrivals in ambiguous, wary encounters on a set four hundred years in the making, built on a foundation of Native American displacement.

Philip Garrison says his book of essays is “in praise of mixed feelings,” particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. His neighborhood is the Columbia Plateau, one of many North American nodes of immigration. Following a meandering, though purposeful trail, Garrison catches hillbillies and newer Mexican arrivalsin ambiguous, wary encounters on a set four hundred years in the making, built on a foundation of Native American displacement. Garrison is the product of the earlier surge of new arrivals: from the 1930s to the1970s, those he calls hillbillies left such mid-nation states as Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Dakotas for the West. The more recent wave, from 1990 to 2010, came mostly from the central plateauof Mexico. These are folks with whom Garrison communes in multiple ways. Anecdotes from sources as varied as pioneer diaries, railroad promotions,family Bibles, Wikipedia, and local gossip “portray the region's immigration as a kind of identity makeover, one that takes the form first of breakdown, then of reassembly, and finally of renewal.” Garrison’s mixof slangy memoir and anthropological field notes shines light on the human condition in today’s West.

Philip Garrison is a bilingual writer and community organizer, retired after fifty years of teaching at universities in the western U.S. and Mexico. He has authored five volumes of poetry and four essay collections.

Preface

PART ONE. Identity Theft
Life and Times
Testimonio 1
Before Long, in a While
Testimonio 2
Dear Tucker
Testimonio 3
Aguas
Testimonio 4
Somewhere Nobody Else Wanted to Live
Testimonio 5

PART TWO. What You Hear Secondhand
Testimonio 6
Hearsay
Testimonio 7
Anniversaries
Testimonio 8
Uncle Lou versus the Nineteenth Century
Testimonio 9
Fire and Elephants
Testimonio 10

PART THREE. What Emerges from the Husk
Testimonio 11
Letter from Manastash Creek
Testimonio 12
Casta
Testimonio 13
Everyone Agrees
Testimonio 14
Letter from Millpond Manor
Testimonio 15
El Chacuaco

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2017
Verlagsort	Salt Lake City
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 213 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-60781-549-4 / 1607815494
ISBN-13	978-1-60781-549-5 / 9781607815495
Zustand	Neuware