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Mexico Reading the United States
Linda Egan
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Description for Mexico Reading the United States
Paperback. Contains thirteen essays that explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. This collection discusses travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements. Editor(s): Egan, Linda; Long, Mary K. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w cartoons, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJ; DNF; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 680.
The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. The contributors, all of whom have personal experience with the challenges of bi-cultural and bi-national living, discuss travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements. In a time of ever-increasing migration of capital and human beings, this book turns on its head the usual perspective of U.S. economic and cultural dominance in order to deepen understanding of the bi-national relationship. ... Read more
The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. The contributors, all of whom have personal experience with the challenges of bi-cultural and bi-national living, discuss travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements. In a time of ever-increasing migration of capital and human beings, this book turns on its head the usual perspective of U.S. economic and cultural dominance in order to deepen understanding of the bi-national relationship. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826516398
SKU
V9780826516398
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About Linda Egan
Linda Egan, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of California - Davis, is the author of Carlos Monsivais: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico and a book on Sor Juana. Mary K. Long, Director of International Spanish for the Professions, University of Colorado - Boulder, has written on the work of Salvador Novo and on cross-cultural exchange between Latin America and ... Read more
Reviews for Mexico Reading the United States
A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective. - Norma Klahn ""This fascinating work proves to us that Mexico and the United States are not just 'distant neighbors' but can share a common culture of decency and respect for human rights. To read one another is to lay the first stone toward a foundation of mutual comprehension. We have no other ... Read more