Book Description
A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.
Author : Domino Renee Perez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1477326340
A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.
Author : Domino Renee Perez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1477326367
2023 Finalist Best Academic Themed Book, College Level – English, International Latino Book Awards A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media. As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films—and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the basis of Perez’s “slow” research approach to race, class, and gender in the borderlands. Part cultural history, part literary criticism, part memoir, Fatherhood in the Borderlands takes an incisive look at the value of creative inquiry while it examines the nuanced portrayal of Mexican American fathers in literature and film. Perez reveals a shifting tension in the literal and figurative borderlands of popular narratives and shows how form, genre, and subject work to determine the roles Mexican American fathers are allowed to occupy. She also calls our attention to the cultural landscape that has allowed such a racialized representation of Mexican American fathers to continue, unopposed, for so many years. Fatherhood in the Borderlands brings readers right to the intersection of the white cultural mainstream in the United States and Mexican American cultural productions, carefully considering the legibility and illegibility of Brown fathers in contemporary media.
Author : Ruth Bornstein
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 9780761451181
In 1934, eleven-year-old Charlotte and her mother move to tiny Valley Junction, Missouri, where Charlotte befriends an eccentric old woman in spite of her mother's and others' warnings.
Author : Gloria Anzaldúa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781879960954
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez and Norma Cantú. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences growing up near the U.S./Mexico border, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of borders as psychic, social, and cultural terrains that we inhabit and that inhabit us all. Drawing heavily on archival research and a comprehensive literature review while contextualizing the book within her theories and writings before and after its 1987 publication, this critical edition elucidates Anzaldúa's complex composition process and its centrality in the development of her philosophy. It opens with two introductory studies; offers a corrected text, explanatory footnotes, translations, and four archival appendices; and closes with an updated bibliography of Anzaldúa's works, an extensive scholarly bibliography on Borderlands, a brief biography, and a short discussion of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers. "Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez's meticulous archival work and Norma Elia Cantú's life experience and expertise converge to offer a stunning resource for Anzaldúa scholars; for writers, artists, and activists inspired by her work; and for everyone. Hereafter, no study of Borderlands will be complete without this beautiful, essential reference."--Paola Bacchetta
Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0820334073
The past two decades have seen an intense, interdisciplinary interest in the border areas between states—inhabited territories located on the margins of a power center or between power centers. This timely and highly original collection of essays edited by noted scholar I. William Zartman is an attempt “to begin to understand both these areas and the interactions that occur within and across them”—that is, to understand how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries. These essays highlight three defining features of border areas: borderlanders constitute an experiential and culturally identifiable unit; borderlands are characterized by constant movement (in time, space, and activity); and in their mobility, borderlands always prepare for the next move at the same time that they respond to the last one. The ten case studies presented range over four millennia and provide windows for observing the dynamics of life in borderlands. They also have policy relevance, especially in creating an awareness of borderlands as dynamic social spheres and of the need to anticipate the changes that given policies will engender—changes that will in turn require their own solutions. Contrary to what one would expect in this age of globalization, says Zartman, borderlands maintain their own dynamics and identities and indeed spread beyond the fringes of the border and reach deep into the hinterland itself.
Author : Thomas F. Monteleone
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781880325209
A Collection of essays and columns which discuss the writing and publishing business in and out of the genres of Science Fictiuon, Horror, Suspense, as well as writing for televisions and film. It is full of wit, humor, and experience.
Author : Amit Thakkar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031680502
Author : Oscar J‡quez Mart’nez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 1994-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816514144
Looks at life on the Mexican border, including the ethnicity, attitudes, and place of residence of those who live there, and how they interact with other residents
Author : Hector Avalos Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780826340887
Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.
Author : Beth Alvarado
Publisher : Black Lawrence Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625571259
Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she creates survival maps for border crossers and paints murals at the Casa de los Olvidados, a refuge in Sonora run by the traditional healer Juana of God. These darkly funny tales, focusing on Mexican-American, Euro-American, and Mexican characters, feature visionary experiences, ghosts, faith healers, a deer's head that speaks, a dog who channels spirits of the dead--and a young woman whose drawings begin to create realities instead of just reflecting them.