Mexico, nation in transit : contemporary representations of Mexican migration to the United States / Christina L. Sisk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sisk, Christina L., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Mexican literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexican literature.

Mexican literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Emigration and immigration in art.

Displacement (Psychology) in art.

National characteristics, Mexico, in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 232 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2011]

Summary:

"This book argues for a deterritorialized notion of Mexican national, regional, and local identities by analyzing the representations of migration within Mexican and Mexican American literature, film, and music from the last twenty years"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: migrating nation, transnational web of communities

Romancing the nation: migration imagined from Mexico City

How to cross the border: Instructions for a Fronterizo and for a Migrant

Rolas de migración: expressions of Mexicanidad

Diary of a macuiltianguense: the transnationalization of local identities

Artistic migrations: Mexican filmmakers go to Hollywood

Beyond the first generation: Mexican Americans visit Mexico

Conclusion: "I'm Mexican. Pull me over"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816529551

0816529558

OCLC:

713192636