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Border Culture

Stavans, Ilan
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780313358203
Publisert
2010-02-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Greenwood Press
Vekt
482 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, UF, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Redaktør
Stavans, Ilan

Om bidragsyterne

ILAN STAVANS has been called the czar of Latino culture in the United States by the New York Times and Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast by the Washington Post. Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture and Amherst College and the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, the Antonia Pantoja Award, Chile's Presidential Medal, and the Ruben Dario Distinction. He earned an Emmy nomination as host of the PBS show La Plaza: Conversations with Ilan Stavans. He has taught at Columbia University, Oberlin College, and Smith College, among other institutions. He is the author of numerous publications, including Encyclopedia Latina (2005) and the forthcoming Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin Music.

Border Culture

Stavans, Ilan
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk
Stavans, Ilan
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk
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Obviously suitable as a curriculum supplement text book, <i>Border Culture </i>is also very appropriate for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in contemporary Mexican/American border issues.

Midwest Book Review

The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays representative of the tangled experiences and issues central to life between cultures. Divided into two sections, Border Culture covers topics essential to better understanding this often misunderstood region and state-of-mind. The first section, "Considerations," culls essays covering socio-economic and political topics illustrating the hyper reality of life and living on La Frontera. Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera. This enlightening and comprehensive collection will no doubt help readers better understand border culture.
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Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera.
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Series Foreword by Ilan Stavans Introduction I CONSIDERATIONS La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought Mario T. García The Great Wall of Capital Mike Davis Establishing Shots of the Border: The Fence and the River Claire F. Fox Lola Casanova: Tropes of Mestizaje and Frontiers of Race Robert McKee Irwin Serpent Tongues, Social Hierarchies, and National Citizenship: The Splitting of Border Languages and Cultures between Latina/o Youths Cynthia L. Bejarano Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia Carl Gutiérrez-Jones Aliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of the Border Patrol Museum Eduardo Barrera II TESTIMONIES Great River Paul Horgan Nothing to Declare: Welcome to Tijuana Juan Villoro With the Smooth Rhythm of Her Eyelashes Luis Humberto Crosthwaite Talking to the Río Grande Cecilio García-Camarillo Pocho Pioneer Richard Rodriguez I Could Only Fight Back in My Poetry Guillermo Gómez-Peña 197 A Dream Ilan Stavans Selected Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors
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Obviously suitable as a curriculum supplement text book, Border Culture is also very appropriate for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in contemporary Mexican/American border issues.
The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization presents a diverse and representative selection of essays on the most studied topics, people, and issues in high schools and universities across the country. The series, the first of its kind, explores Latino life, culture, and history in the United States in its multiple facets, with its ramifications in the Americas, the Caribbean Basin, and the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing from the most significant articles-including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews-books in the series bring together the best scholarship on the Latino experience in America. The series offers an expansive breadth of coverage, with topics spanning from religion, politics, and social issues, to cinema, literature, music, cuisine, and social life. Each volume includes an introduction by Ilan Stavans, a chronology of events relating to the topic, and a detailed bibliography to aid students in further research.
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Obviously suitable as a curriculum supplement text book, <i>Border Culture </i>is also very appropriate for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in contemporary Mexican/American border issues.

Midwest Book Review

The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays representative of the tangled experiences and issues central to life between cultures. Divided into two sections, Border Culture covers topics essential to better understanding this often misunderstood region and state-of-mind. The first section, "Considerations," culls essays covering socio-economic and political topics illustrating the hyper reality of life and living on La Frontera. Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera. This enlightening and comprehensive collection will no doubt help readers better understand border culture.
Les mer
Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera.
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Series Foreword by Ilan Stavans Introduction I CONSIDERATIONS La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought Mario T. García The Great Wall of Capital Mike Davis Establishing Shots of the Border: The Fence and the River Claire F. Fox Lola Casanova: Tropes of Mestizaje and Frontiers of Race Robert McKee Irwin Serpent Tongues, Social Hierarchies, and National Citizenship: The Splitting of Border Languages and Cultures between Latina/o Youths Cynthia L. Bejarano Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia Carl Gutiérrez-Jones Aliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of the Border Patrol Museum Eduardo Barrera II TESTIMONIES Great River Paul Horgan Nothing to Declare: Welcome to Tijuana Juan Villoro With the Smooth Rhythm of Her Eyelashes Luis Humberto Crosthwaite Talking to the Río Grande Cecilio García-Camarillo Pocho Pioneer Richard Rodriguez I Could Only Fight Back in My Poetry Guillermo Gómez-Peña 197 A Dream Ilan Stavans Selected Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors
Les mer
Obviously suitable as a curriculum supplement text book, Border Culture is also very appropriate for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in contemporary Mexican/American border issues.
The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization presents a diverse and representative selection of essays on the most studied topics, people, and issues in high schools and universities across the country. The series, the first of its kind, explores Latino life, culture, and history in the United States in its multiple facets, with its ramifications in the Americas, the Caribbean Basin, and the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing from the most significant articles-including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews-books in the series bring together the best scholarship on the Latino experience in America. The series offers an expansive breadth of coverage, with topics spanning from religion, politics, and social issues, to cinema, literature, music, cuisine, and social life. Each volume includes an introduction by Ilan Stavans, a chronology of events relating to the topic, and a detailed bibliography to aid students in further research.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780313358203
Publisert
2010-02-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Greenwood Press
Vekt
482 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, UF, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Redaktør
Stavans, Ilan

Om bidragsyterne

ILAN STAVANS has been called the czar of Latino culture in the United States by the New York Times and Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast by the Washington Post. Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture and Amherst College and the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, the Antonia Pantoja Award, Chile's Presidential Medal, and the Ruben Dario Distinction. He earned an Emmy nomination as host of the PBS show La Plaza: Conversations with Ilan Stavans. He has taught at Columbia University, Oberlin College, and Smith College, among other institutions. He is the author of numerous publications, including Encyclopedia Latina (2005) and the forthcoming Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin Music.

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