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Mexico, nation in transit : contemporary representations of Mexican migration to the United States / Christina L. Sisk.
Van Pelt Library PS153.H56 S57 2011
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- 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
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