Border Culture

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2010
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-0-313-35820-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.2.2010
Reihe/Serie	The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-313-35820-6 / 0313358206
ISBN-13	978-0-313-35820-3 / 9780313358203
Zustand	Neuware