Migrant Longing : Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Miroslava Chávez-García.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968- author.

Series:

David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexicans--United States--Social conditions--Correspondence.

Mexicans.

Immigrants--United States--Correspondence.

Immigrants.

Mexicans--United States--Correspondence.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--Sources.

Mexico.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both "here" and "there" ("aquí y allá"). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional, personal, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate, firsthand accounts. Chávez-García demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in "El Norte" but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks, months, or years at a time, or simply never returned"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An archive of intimacy

Oye Shelly: migrant longing, courtship, and gendered identity

Tu peor es nada: gender, courtship, and marriage

Contesta pronto: migration, return migration, and paternal authority

A dios: migration, miscommunication, and heartbreak

A toda madre (ATM): migrant dreams and nightmares in El Norte

On the significance of letter writing and letters.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908548-3-4

979-88-908548-4-1

1-4696-4104-6

1-4696-4105-4

OCLC:

1030038084