Border Culture

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.

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.

• Series Foreword by Ilan StavansIntroductionI CONSIDERATIONSLa Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American ThoughtMario T. GarcíaThe Great Wall of CapitalMike DavisEstablishing Shots of the Border: The Fence and the RiverClaire F. FoxLola Casanova: Tropes of Mestizaje and Frontiers of RaceRobert McKee IrwinSerpent Tongues, Social Hierarchies, and National Citizenship: The Splitting of Border Languages and Cultures between Latina/o YouthsCynthia L. BejaranoMission Denial: The Development of Historical AmnesiaCarl Gutiérrez-JonesAliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of the Border Patrol MuseumEduardo BarreraII TESTIMONIESGreat RiverPaul HorganNothing to Declare: Welcome to TijuanaJuan VilloroWith the Smooth Rhythm of Her Eyelashes Luis Humberto CrosthwaiteTalking to the Río Grande Cecilio García-CamarilloPocho Pioneer Richard Rodriguez I Could Only Fight Back in My Poetry Guillermo Gómez-Peña 197A Dream Ilan StavansSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors