Research Catalog

Title

Border culture / edited by Ilan Stavans.

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stavans, Ilan

Description

viii, 222 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

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 socioeconomic and political topics illustrating the hyperreality of life and living on La Frontera. The second section, "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. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization

Uniform Title

Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization.

Subject

• Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions
• Mexican-American Border Region > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

La frontera : the border as symbol and reality in Mexican-American thought / Mario T. Garcia -- 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 Gutierrea-Jones -- Aliens in heterotopia : an intertextual reading of the border patrol museum / Eduardo Barrera -- 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 Rio Grande / Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo -- Pocho pioneer / Richard Rodriguez -- I could only fight back in my poetry / Guillermo Gomez-Pena -- A dream / Ilan Stavans.

ISBN

• 9780313358203 (hard copy : alk. paper)
• 0313358206 (hard copy : alk. paper)
• 9780313358210 (ebook : alk. paper)
• 0313358214 (ebook : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009047442

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library