Mexico Reading the United States

Linda Egan And Mary K. Long

Description

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.

Sujets

• Latin American Studies
• Literary Criticism
• Popular Culture
• Histoire
• Latin America
• Mexico
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 17 juillet 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826516404
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Edited by Linda Egan and Mary K. Long

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Part IIInseparable Differences  Mexico Adapts U.S. Models, –s

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From te Silver Screen to te Countryside Confronting te United States and Hollywood in “El Indio” Fernández’she Pearl Fernando Fabio Sáncez

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Introduction Linda Egan and Mary K. Long

Part I

Acknowledgments

Contents

Salvador Novo he American Friend, te American Critic Salvador A. Oropesa

Vasconcelos as Screenwriter Bolívar Remembered Robert Conn

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Writing Home he United States troug te Eyes of Traveling Mexican Artists and Writers, – Mary K. Long

Separate and Unequal Mexico Struggles for Autonomy, –

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From Fags to Gays Political Adaptations and Cultural Translations in te Mexican Gay Liberation Movement Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba

Misguided Idealism on a Mission of Mercy Eleanore Warton, U.S. Do-Gooder Danny J. Anderson

“La pura gringuez” he Essential United States in José Agustín, Carlos Fuentes, and Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón Maarten van Delden

Part IIIAt Home with the Other  Mexico Deals with Virtual Nationhood  into the Twentyfirst Century

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If Nort Were Sout Traps of Cultural Hybridity in Xavier Velasco’sDiablo Guardián Oswaldo Estrada

“Mexican” Novels on te Lesser United States Works by Andrés Acosta, Juvenal Acosta, Boullosa, Puga, Servín, and Xoconostle Emily Hind

Political Cartoons in Cyberspace Rearticulating Mexican and U.S. Cultural Identity in te Global Era Hilda Cacón

A Clas of Civilizing Gestures Mexican Intellectuals Confront a Harvard Scolar Ignacio Corona

Jorge Ramos Reads Nort from Sout Bet E. Jörgensen

Contributors

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Acknowledgments

e editors first wis to express teir sincere gratitude to te scolars wo tor T Micael Ames at Vanderbilt University Press for is entusiastic reception of contributed teir time and work to tis volume. heir dedication and crea- tivity exemplify te best of our profession. Warm tanks also to our edi- our project and is always insigtful and incisive advice as well as to our managing editor, Jessie Hunnicutt, for guiding us troug te process, and our copyeditor, Bobbe Needam, wo found so many ways to improve our work.  Linda Egan is immensely grateful for te opportunity to work wit Mary K. Long on a project tat often required er tranquil spirit, er tact, and er wisdom. Mary possesses an awesome ability to switc many ats at work, attend lovingly to diverse family activities, ceerfully dialogue wit er coeditor and te contribu- tors, and put in long, long oursafterours to write, translate, edit, proofread, for- mat, and perform many additional tasks tat cannot be named ere. Linda freely confesses se could not ave survived tis project witout Mary’s muc friendlier relations wit computer tecnology.  Mary K. Long would like to tank Linda Egan for agreeing to coedit tis an- tology. Her vast knowledge, quick pen, and amazing capacity to work under pres- sure are as inspiring as er friendsip is eartwarming. In addition Mary would like to tank er colleagues in te Department of Spanis and Portuguese for teir encouragement, in particular Isolde Jordan, Ellen Haynes, Nina Molinaro, Susan Hallstead, and Anne Becer, as well as Leila Gómez and Juan Pablo Dabove, wo read parts of te manuscript and provided valuable input, and Ricardo Landeira, cair, mentor, and friend, for is practical and moral support. During te first summer of tis project, undergraduate Sean Kenney provided invaluable researc support troug te Summer Undergraduate Researc Experience (SURE) pro- gram. Finally, many tanks for teir love and patience are due er family, Rafael Moreno-Sáncez, Angela Moreno-Long, Elaine Long, and all te extended family in Mexico, in particular er late moter-in-law, Noemi Sáncez, wose reflec- tions on U.S.-Mexican cultural interactions stimulated many of te questions tat led to tis project.

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 Researc and travel expenses as well as costs for reproduction rigts for te cartoons in Capter  were covered in part wit funds provided by te Depart- ment of Spanis and Portuguese, te University of Colorado–Boulder, te Center for International Business Education Researc (CIBER) at te University of Colo- rado–Denver, and Hilda Cacón. Indexing costs were covered by grants from te office of te Vice Cancellor for Researc and te Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at UC Davis. Many tanks also go to our indexer, Serri S. Dietric.

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