Research Catalog

Title

Mexico reading the United States / edited by Linda Egan and Mary K. Long.

Publication

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Egan, Linda.
• Long, Mary K.

Description

viii, 316 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Mexico > Intellectual life
• Mexican literature > History and criticism
• United States > Foreign public opinion, Mexican
• United States > Civilization > Public opinion
• Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions
• Public opinion > Mexico
• United States > In literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Writing home : the United States through the eyes of traveling Mexican artists and writers, 1920-1940 / Mary K. Long -- Vasconcelos as screenwriter : Bolívar remembered / Robert Conn -- Salvador Novo : the American friend, the American critic / Salvador A. Oropesa -- From the silver screen to the countryside : confronting the United States and Hollywood in "El Indio" Fernández's The pearl / Fernando Fabio Sánchez -- Carlos Monsiváis "translates" Tom Wolfe / Linda Egan -- From fags to gays : political adaptations and cultural translations in the Mexican gay liberation movement / Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba -- Misguided idealism on a mission of mercy : Eleanore Wharton, U.S. do-gooder / Danny J. Anderson -- "La pura gringuez" : the essential United States in José Agustín, Carlos Fuentes, and Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón / Maarten van Delden -- If North were South : traps of cultural hybridity in Xavier Velasco's Diablo guardián / Oswaldo Estrada -- "Mexican" novels on the lesser United States : works by Andrés Acosta, Juvenal Acosta, Boullosa, Puga, Servín, and Xoconostle / Emily Hind -- Political cartoons in cyberspace : rearticulating Mexican and U.S. cultural identity in the global era / Hilda Chacón -- A clash of civilizing gestures : Mexican intellectuals confront a Harvard scholar / Ignacio Corona -- Jorge Ramos reads North from South / Beth E. Jörgensen.

Call Number

JFF 09-637

ISBN

• 9780826516398 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0826516394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780826516381 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0826516386 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008031748

OCLC

237325066

Title

Mexico reading the United States / edited by Linda Egan and Mary K. Long.

Imprint

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Egan, Linda.

Long, Mary K.

Research Call Number

JFF 09-637