What that pig said to Jesus : on the uneasy permanence of immigrant life / Philip Garrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrison, Philip, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal migrants--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.

Internal migrants.

Mexicans--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.

Mexicans.

Garrison, Philip--Anecdotes.

Garrison, Philip.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, [Utah] : The University of Utah Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Philip Garrison writes about two waves of the immigrant poor that have settled on the Columbia Plateau and throughout the American West. One, beginning in the 1930's and caricatured as Okies, encompassed hundreds of thousands of families from Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas and continued until about 1970. The second wave, since 1990, has come primarily from the Mexican Central Plateau, in even greater numbers. This book looks at immigration as "an identity makeover, one taking the form first of breakdown, then of reassembly, and finally of renewal""--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Life and times

Testimonio 1

Before long, in a while

Testimonio 2

Dear Tucker

Testimonio 3

Aguas

Testimonio 4

Somewhere nobody else wanted to live

Testimonio 5

What you hear secondhand : Testimonio 6

Hearsay

Testimonio 7

Anniversaries

Testimonio 8

Uncle Lou versus the nineteenth century

Testimonio 9

Fire and elephants

Testimonio 10

What emerges from the husk : Testimonio 11

Letter from Manastash Creek

Testimonio 12

Casta

Testimonio 13

Everyone agrees

Testimonio 14

Letter from Millpond Manor

Testimonio 15

El chacuaco.

Notes:

"Excerpts and drafts of these essays have appeared in BorderSenses, Hinchas de Poesía, New Madrid, On Barcelona, and Southwest Review."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60781-550-8

OCLC:

1011094591