What constitutes a border situation? How translatable and "portable" is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dynamics from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The volume opens with "Part I: (B)orders and lines: A Theoretical Intervention," which explores the circle and the cross as spatial configurations of two contradictory urges, to separate and divide on the one hand, and to welcome and allow passage on the other. "Part II: Visions of the Mexican-US Border" zooms in onto the Mexican-United States border as it delves into the border transits between the two neighboring countries. But what happens when we situate the border on the cultural terrain? How well does the border travel? "Part III: Cultural Intersections" expands the border encounter as it deals with the different ways in which texts are encoded, registered, appropriated, mimicked and transformed in other cultural texts. "Part IV: Trans-Nations," addresses instances of trans-American relations stemming from experiences of up-rooting and intercultural contacts in the context of mass-migration and migratory flows. Finally, "Part V: Trans-Lations," deals with the ways in which the cultural borderlands suffuse other discourses and cultural practices. The volume is of interest for scholars and researchers in the field of Border studies, Chicano studies, "Ethnic Studies," as well as American Literature and Culture.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9042022493
ISBN-13
9789042022492
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63106814
Product Key Features
Author
ANA María Manzanas
Publication Name
Border Transits : Literature and Culture Across the Line
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Series
Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
VIII, 303 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
F786
Table of Content
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAna Mª MANZANAS: Border Dynamics: From Terminus to Terminator Part I: (B)orders and Lines: A Theoretical Intervention Ana Mª MANZANAS: Circles and Crosses: Reconsidering Lines of Demarcation Part II: Visions of the U.S.-Mexican Border José Pablo VILLALOBOS: Up against the Border: A Literary ResponseÉdgar COTA-TORRES: Dispelling the Border Myth: Zonkey Writers and the Black Legend Javier DURÁN: Border Voices: Life Writings and Self-Representation of the U.S.-Mexico Frontera Santiago VAQUERA: Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución is an Avenue Part III: Cultural Intersections Isabel SOTO: "To Hear Another Language": Lifting the Veil between Langston Hughes and Federico García Lorca Isabel DURÁN: The Brown/ Mestiza Metaphor, or the Impertinence against Borders Begoña SIMAL: "A Wall of Barbed Lies": Absent Borders in María Cristina Mena's Short Fiction Part IV: Trans-Nations Maria Antònia OLIVER-ROTGER: Ethnographies of Transnational Migration in Rubén Martínez's Crossing Over (2001) Manuel MARTÍN-RODRÍGUEZ: Mapping the Trans/Hispanic Atlantic: Nuyol, Miami, Tenerife, Tangier Part V: Trans-Lations África VIDAL: Resisting through Hyphenation: The Ethics of Translating (Im)pure Texts Ángel MATEOS-APARICIO: Trespassers of Body Boundaries: The Cyborg and the Construction of a Postgendered Posthuman Identity Bibliography
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
General, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General