Tales from the Desert Borderland

ISBN-13: 9783030351328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 167 str.

Lawrence J. Taylor

Opis

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Machaca

Chapter 2: Hot Springs

Chapter 3: Love and Lettuce 

Chapter 4: NAFTA

Chapter 5: Endangered Species

Chapter 6: Burying Sheila Cassidy

Chapter 7: Ranch Rescue

Chapter 8: The Tunnel

O autorze

Lawrence J. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Ireland. The author of classic ethnographies Dutchmen on the Bay and Occasions of Faith, Taylor has been working and writing on the US/Mexico border since the mid-1990s, publishing first The Road to Mexico (1997), followed by the prize-winning account of liminal border lives, Tunnel Kids (2001) and Ambos Nogales: Intimate Portraits of the US/Mexico Border  (2002). As in this volume, each of these books was produced in collaboration with artist Maeve Hickey.     

Blurb

Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct mining towns, rambling Native American reservations and besieged Wildlife Refuges. Along the way they will share the conflicts, calamities, and occasional triumph of an engaging cast of characters. While these tales treat such familiar border themes as drug- and people-smuggling or hybrid and conflicting cultures and identities, they do so with a literary flair that revels in the rich diversity of border life as well as in its ambiguity, ambivalence, irony and often unexpected humor.