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Border Culture.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stavans, Ilan.
Series:
The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mexican-American Border Region--Social life and customs.
Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2010.
Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Series Foreword by Ilan Stavans
Introduction
Part I: Considerations
La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought Mario
The Great Wall of Capital
Establishing Shots of the Border: The Fence and the River
Lola Casanova: Tropes of Mestizaje and Frontiers of Race
Serpent Tongues, Social Hierarchies, and National Citizenship: The Splitting of Border Languages and Cultures between Latina/o Youths
Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia
Aliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of the Border Patrol Museum
Part II: Testimonies
Great River
Nothing to Declare: Welcome to Tijuana
With the Smooth Rhythm of Her Eyelashes
Talking to the Río Grande
Pocho Pioneer
I Could Only Fight Back in My Poetry
A Dream
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Contributors.
Notes:
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Other Format:
Print version: Stavans, Ilan Border Culture
ISBN:
9780313358210
OCLC:
705929987

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