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Writing on the edge : a borderlands reader / edited by Tom Miller.
LIBRA - Special PS566 .W745 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Southwestern States.
- American literature.
- American literature--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican literature.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Literary collections.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican literature--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Civilization.
- Southwestern States--Literary collections.
- Southwestern States.
- Southwestern States--Civilization.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The U.S.-Mexico borderland is a country unto itself that has been celebrated in the works of many writers -- and not just those who call it home. Here artists as disparate as Carlos Fuentes, Maya Angelou, and Allen Ginsberg have found literary inspiration, presenting the region through varied viewpoints that give border writing its unusual scope and texture. This wide-ranging anthology -- gathering short stories and essays, song lyrics and poems -- offers readers a new appreciation of the border and its literature. Writing on the Edge sparkles with creativity and invites readers to enjoy the best of two worlds -- and of the world they share.
- Contents:
- from Mi Tierra / Ray Gonzalez 3
- "Negra" / Luis Alberto Urrea 6
- from Guerrero Viejo / Elena Poniatowska 9
- from The Desert Smells Like Rain / Gary Paul Nabhan 12
- from Pilgrims in Aztlan / Miguel Mendez 17
- from Floating Kingdom / George Rabasa 21
- from Innocent Darkness / Edward R. F. Sheehan 25
- "When It Comes to Class: Viola Barragan" / Rolando Hinojosa 29
- "Lucky Strike" / Gabriel Trujillo Munoz 33
- "El Otro Lado" / Ruben Martinez 39
- from Rain of Gold / Victor Villasenor 45
- "Mericans" / Sandra Cisneros 49
- from Rainbow's End / Genaro Gonzalez 52
- "This Memory Begins with Flight" / Luis J. Rodriguez 59
- from Canicula / Norma Elia Cantu 64
- "Laredo, Texas" / Vladimir Mayakovsky 67
- from The Rain God / Arturo Islas 72
- "I Will Send For You or I Will Come Home Rich" / Richard Rodriguez 77
- "The Trouble with English" / Gloria Lopez-Stafford 83
- "Los mexicanos que hablan ingles/The Mexicans Who Speak English" collected / Americo Paredes 87
- "To Live in the Borderlands Means You..." / Gloria Anzaldua 91
- "Rio Grande" / Jose Antonio Burciaga 93
- "Nos Sentamos, Part 6: El Paso" / Ricardo Sanchez 95
- "Journeys: El Paso/Juarez, 1984" / Benjamin Alire Saenz 97
- "Naturalization Papers" / Myriam Moscona 99
- "To Tijuana" / Miguel de Anda Jacobsen 100
- "A Border Rose" / Robert L. Jones 101
- "Legal Alien" / Pat Mora 103
- "To My Fatherland" / Trinidad V. Sanchez 104
- "Dog Days" 105
- "Two Faces, One Reality" / Brianda Domecq 109
- from La Frontera / Alan Weisman 113
- from The Lightning of August / Jorge Ibarguengoitia 117
- "Rough Portrait" / Barbara Jacobs 122
- from Lines and Shadows / Joseph Wambaugh 124
- from Murieron a mitad del rio (They Died in the Middle of the River) / Luis Spota 128
- "Sonoyta Interlude" / Tom Miller 133
- from Frontera Dreams / Paco Ignacio Taibo II 138
- Border Dictionary/Diccionario Fronterizo / Victor Ochoa 141
- from The Devil in Texas / Aristeo Brito 149
- "Stephen Crane in Mexico (II)" / Stephen Crane 153
- from The Old Gringo / Carlos Fuentes 157
- from The Underdogs / Mariano Azuela 161
- "Endymion; or, On the Border" / John Reed 163
- "My First Glimpse of Pancho Villa" / Martin Luis Guzman 168
- from Under the Fifth Sun / Earl Shorris 173
- from A Mexican Ulysses / Jose Vasconcelos 179
- from Another Mexico / Graham Greene 184
- "Jacinto Trevino" / Los Pinguinos del Norte 188
- "Over the Border" / Cora Hayward Crawford 193
- from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou 196
- "Cloister" / Ricardo Aguilar-Melantzon 201
- from The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo / Oscar Zeta Acosta 208
- from Blue Desert / Charles Bowden 213
- "On U.S./Mexico Relations" / Guillermo Gomez-Pena 223
- "Crossing Over" / Demetria Martinez 226
- "Surrender" / Maria Herrera-Sobek 228
- "Poem for the Young White Man ..." / Lorna Dee Cervantes 229
- "Speaking of My Tongue" / Janet Arelis Quezada 231
- "La Frontera" / Alicia Gaspar de Alba 232
- "La Frontera" / Oscar J. Martinez 233
- "The Desert Music" / William Carlos Williams 235
- from Memory of Fire / Eduardo Galeano 246
- from The Edge of the Storm / Agustin Yanez 255
- from Border City / Hart Stilwell 259
- from Bracero / Eugene Nelson 266
- from In Search of Bernabe / Graciela Limon 274
- "The Child" / Alberto Alvaro Rios 280
- "Mexicali, June 1954" / Allen Ginsberg 291
- from Lonesome Traveler / Jack Kerouac 292
- from The Mexican Night / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 293
- "The Shop Keepers (or Long Live Tourism!)" / Oscar Monroy Rivera 295
- "Denuncia!" / Gilberto Maldonado Herrera 300
- "El Mordido" / Gilbert Shelton, Dave Sheridan 310
- "Corridista Vicente Macias" / John Ross 313
- "Un mojado sin licencia / A Wetback without a License" / Flaco Jimenez 315
- "El Deportado" / Los Hermanos Banuelos 317
- "Deportee: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos" / Woody Guthrie 323
- "Bracero" / Phil Ochs 325
- "Across the Borderline" / Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, James Dickinson 326
- "El Paso" / Marty Robbins 328
- "What Money?" 330
- "Lajitas and the NFL" / Sam Shepard 331.
- ISBN:
- 0816522413
- OCLC:
- 51172317
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