Research Catalog

Title

Writing on the edge : a borderlands reader / edited by Tom Miller.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Miller, Tom, 1947-

Description

xxvi, 356 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

Contains an anthology of short stories and essays, songs and poems that reflect both American and Mexican literature.

Subject

• American literature > Southwestern States
• American literature > Mexican-American Border Region
• Mexican literature > Mexican-American Border Region
• Littérature américaine > États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
• Littérature américaine > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine
• Littérature mexicaine > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine
• American literature
• Civilization
• Mexican literature
• Literatur
• Grenze Motiv
• Grenzgebiet Motiv
• Mexican-American Border Region > Literary collections
• Mexican-American Border Region > Civilization
• Southwestern States > Literary collections
• Southwestern States > Civilization
• Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Civilisation
• États-Unis (Sud-Ouest) > Anthologies
• États-Unis (Sud-Ouest) > Civilisation
• North America > Mexican-American Border Region
• United States > Southwestern States
• USA
• Mexiko

Genre/Form

• Novels
• short stories.
• novels.
• essays.
• poetry.
• Essays
• Fiction
• Literary collections
• Literature
• Poetry
• Short stories
• Song texts
• Nouvelles.
• Romans.
• Essais.
• Poésie.
• Littérature.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• From Mi Tierra / Ray Gonzalez -- Negra / Luis Alberto Urrea -- from Guerrero Viejo / Elena Poniatowska -- from The Desert Smells Like Rain / Gary Paul Nabhan -- from Pilgrims in Aztlan / Miguel Mendez -- from Floating Kingdom / George Rabasa -- from Innocent Darkness / Edward R. F. Sheehan -- When It Comes to Class: Viola Barragan / Rolando Hinojosa -- Lucky Strike / Gabriel Trujillo Munoz -- El Otro Lado / Ruben Martinez -- from Rain of Gold / Victor Villasenor --
• Mericans / Sandra Cisneros -- from Rainbow's End / Genaro Gonzalez -- This Memory Begins with Flight / Luis J. Rodriguez -- from Canicula / Norma Elia Cantu -- Laredo, Texas / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- from The Rain God / Arturo Islas -- I Will Send For You or I Will Come Home Rich / Richard Rodriguez -- The Trouble with English / Gloria Lopez-Stafford -- Los mexicanos que hablan ingles/The Mexicans Who Speak English collected / Americo Paredes --
• To Live in the Borderlands Means You... / Gloria Anzaldua -- Rio Grande / Jose Antonio Burciaga -- Nos Sentamos, Part 6: El Paso / Ricardo Sanchez -- Journeys: El Paso/Juarez, 1984 / Benjamin Alire Saenz -- Naturalization Papers / Myriam Moscona -- To Tijuana / Miguel de Anda Jacobsen -- A Border Rose / Robert L. Jones -- Legal Alien / Pat Mora -- To My Fatherland / Trinidad V. Sanchez -- Dog Days -- Two Faces, One Reality / Brianda Domecq --
• From La Frontera / Alan Weisman -- from The Lightning of August / Jorge Ibarguengoitia -- Rough Portrait / Barbara Jacobs -- from Lines and Shadows / Joseph Wambaugh -- from Murieron a mitad del rio (They Died in the Middle of the River) / Luis Spota -- Sonoyta Interlude / Tom Miller -- from Frontera Dreams / Paco Ignacio Taibo II -- Border Dictionary/Diccionario Fronterizo / Victor Ochoa -- from The Devil in Texas / Aristeo Brito --
• Stephen Crane in Mexico (II) / Stephen Crane -- from The Old Gringo / Carlos Fuentes -- from The Underdogs / Mariano Azuela -- Endymion; or, On the Border / John Reed -- My First Glimpse of Pancho Villa / Martin Luis Guzman -- from Under the Fifth Sun / Earl Shorris -- from A Mexican Ulysses / Jose Vasconcelos -- from Another Mexico / Graham Greene -- Jacinto Trevino / Los Pinguinos del Norte -- Over the Border / Cora Hayward Crawford --
• From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou -- Cloister / Ricardo Aguilar-Melantzon -- from The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo / Oscar Zeta Acosta -- from Blue Desert / Charles Bowden -- On U.S./Mexico Relations / Guillermo Gomez-Pena -- Crossing Over / Demetria Martinez -- Surrender / Maria Herrera-Sobek -- Poem for the Young White Man ... / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Speaking of My Tongue / Janet Arelis Quezada -- La Frontera / Alicia Gaspar de Alba --
• La Frontera / Oscar J. Martinez -- The Desert Music / William Carlos Williams -- from Memory of Fire / Eduardo Galeano -- from The Edge of the Storm / Agustin Yanez -- from Border City / Hart Stilwell -- from Bracero / Eugene Nelson -- from In Search of Bernabe / Graciela Limon -- The Child / Alberto Alvaro Rios -- Mexicali, June 1954 / Allen Ginsberg -- from Lonesome Traveler / Jack Kerouac -- from The Mexican Night / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
• The Shop Keepers (or Long Live Tourism!) / Oscar Monroy Rivera -- Denuncia! / Gilberto Maldonado Herrera -- El Mordido / Gilbert Shelton, Dave Sheridan -- Corridista Vicente Macias / John Ross -- Un mojado sin licencia / A Wetback without a License / Flaco Jimenez -- El Deportado / Los Hermanos Banuelos -- Deportee: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos / Woody Guthrie -- Bracero / Phil Ochs -- Across the Borderline / Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, James Dickinson.
• El Paso / Marty Robbins -- What Money? -- Lajitas and the NFL / Sam Shepard.

ISBN

• 0816522413
• 9780816522415

LCCN

• 2002154866
• 99806388544

OCLC

51172317

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library