Global Mexican Cultural Productions

ISBN-13: 9781349298723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 259 str.

Rosana Blanco-Cano; Rita Urquijo-Ruiz; R. Blanco-Cano

Opis

In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency.

Spis treści

Preface; A.Madrid Introduction: Transnational Transgressions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Mexican Cultural Productions; R.E.Urquijo-Ruiz & R.Blanco-Cano PART I: AND WHAT ARE TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN BORDER CULTURES? Wet Minds, Bookleggers, and the Place of Borders and Diasporas in U.S. Academic Circles; J.Durán Fronterizo and Transborder Existences: Binding Megascripts in a Transnational World; C.Vélez-Ibáñez Transnational Mexicano Cultural Production: El Otro Lado; E.Hernández PART II: VOICES AND LITERATURES IN LAS FRONTERAS Dos Mundos: Two Celebrations in Laredo, Texas - Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz and The Pocahontas Pageant of the George Washington's Birthday Celebration; N.E.Cantú Transnational Narratives, Cultural Production, and Representations: Blurred Subjects in Juárez, México; M.S.Tabuenca PART III: PERFORMING BORDERS: DE AQUI Y DE ALLÁ (FROM HERE AND FROM THERE) Performing Borders: De aquí y de allá. (Preliminary Notes on Mexican and Chicana/o Transnational Performance Art); L.G.Gutiérrez Aquí y Allá: Distance and Difference in Monica Palacios's Transfronteriza Chicana Performance; M.T.Danielson Selena's 'Como la Flor': Laying the Sound-Track of Latinidad; D.Parédez PART IV: DE IMÁGENES Y SUENOS: TRANSNATIONAL BORDER VISUAL CULTURES De Imágenes y Sueños: Transnational Mexican Visual Culture; T.Ybarra-Frausto Coming and Going: Transborder Visual Art in Tijuana; N.Iglesias-Prieto PART V: YOUNG VOICES AT THE CROSSROADS: STUDENT ARTISTIC AND SCHOLARLY INTERVENTIONS Petition; A.Sotelo Self-Portrait; A.Sotelo Socialized into 'Whiteness'; R.J.Rojas From My Street to Main Street; M.Guerra PART VI: INTERVIEWS WITH TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN ARTISTS Interview with Yolanda Cruz; R.Blanco-Cano Interview with Rosina Conde; R.E.Urquijo-Ruiz & R.Blanco-Cano

O autorze

ROSANA BLANCO-CANOAssistant Professor of Spanish at Trinity University, USA.
RITA URQUIJO-RUIZAssociate Professor of Literature at Trinity University, USA.