by Linda Egan (Editor)
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.
Front Jacket
A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective. --Elena Poniatowska
Author Biography
Linda Egan, Associate Professor of Spanish, UC Davis, is the author of Carlos Monsivaís: 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 the United States in the business and non-profit sectors.
Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.9 x 6.9 IN
Publication Date: July 17, 2009
