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What that pig said to Jesus : on the uneasy permanence of immigrant life
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What that pig said to Jesus : on the uneasy permanence of immigrant life / Philip Garrison.
ISBN
9781607815495
1607815494
9781607815501
Publication
Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xii, 172 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
"Excerpts and drafts of these essays have appeared in BorderSenses, Hinchas de Poesía, New Madrid, On Barcelona, and Southwest Review."
Summary
"Philip Garrison writes about two waves of the immigrant poor that have settled on the Columbia Plateau and throughout the American West. One, beginning in the 1930s and caricatured as Okies, encompassed hundreds of thousands of families from Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas and continued until about 1970. The second wave, since 1990, has come primarily from the Mexican Central Plateau, in even greater numbers. This book looks at immigration as "an identity makeover, one taking the form first of breakdown, then of reassembly, and finally of renewal""--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 20, 2017
Partial contents
Life and times
Testimonio 1
Before long, in a while
Testimonio 2
Dear Tucker
Testimonio 3
Aguas
Testimonio 4
Somewhere nobody else wanted to live
Testimonio 5
What you hear secondhand : Testimonio 6
Hearsay
Testimonio 7
Anniversaries
Testimonio 8
Uncle Lou versus the nineteenth century
Testimonio 9
Fire and elephants
Testimonio 10
What emerges from the husk : Testimonio 11
Letter from Manastash Creek
Testimonio 12
Casta
Testimonio 13
Everyone agrees
Testimonio 14
Letter from Millpond Manor
Testimonio 15
El chacuaco.
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