Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California

ISBN-13: 9780415944199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 336 str.

Michael Dear; Gustavo Leclerc

Opis

This title concerns the postborder metropolis of Bajalta, California, which stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns.

Spis treści

Foreward - Selma Holo Introduction - Carlos Monsivais Part One: Regional Groundedness 1. The Postborder Condition - Michael Dear and Gustavo LeClerc Folio: Gallery of Postborder Artworks 2. Peopling Southern California - Phoebe Kropp and Michael Dear 3. Peopling Baja California - Hector Manuel Lucero Part Two: Regional Imaginations 4. Forty Years of Art in the San Diego-Tijuana Region - Jo-Anne Berelowitz 5. Border Representations in Film and Cultural Discourses - Norma Iglesias 6. Border Metropolis - Lawrence Herzog Part Three: Regional Hybridities 7. Where am I at Home - Richard Candida Smith 8. Borders/Hybrids - David Palumbo-Liu 9. Hybrid Cultures in Postborder Latin America - Nestor Garcia Canclini

O autorze

Michael Dear is Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at USC.

Gustavo LeClerc is partner and founding member of ADOBE LA (Artists, Architects and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles) since 1992.