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Mexico, nation in transit : contemporary representations of Mexican migration to the United States
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Mexico, nation in transit : contemporary representations of Mexican migration to the United States / Christina L. Sisk.
ISBN
9780816529551 (hardback)
0816529558 (hardback)
Published
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
Physical Description
ix, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book argues for a deterritorialized notion of Mexican national, regional, and local identities by analyzing the representations of migration within Mexican and Mexican American literature, film, and music from the last twenty years"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: migrating nation, transnational web of communities
Romancing the nation: migration imagined from Mexico City
How to cross the border: Instructions for a Fronterizo and for a Migrant
Rolas de migración: expressions of Mexicanidad
Diary of a macuiltianguense: the transnationalization of local identities
Artistic migrations: Mexican filmmakers go to Hollywood
Beyond the first generation: Mexican Americans visit Mexico
Conclusion: "I'm Mexican. Pull me over"
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