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Border Women: Writing from La Frontera
Debra A. Castillo
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Description for Border Women: Writing from La Frontera
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
The first study to foreground writing by women who live at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
It is a peculiar fact that U.S.-Mexico border theory is dominated by those who write about, not from, the border. By looking at the work of women writers from both sides of the border, Debra A. Castillo and María-Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba open border studies to a truly transnational analysis while bringing questions of gender to the fore.
Border Women rethinks border theory by emphasizing women writers whose work—in Spanish, English, or a mixture of the two languages—calls into question accepted notions of border identities. These writers include those ... Read more Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816639588
SKU
V9780816639588
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About Debra A. Castillo
Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss presidential fellow and professor of Romance studies and comparative literature at Cornell University. María-Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba is a researcher at Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Juarez, where she also works as the regional director.
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