Border transits : literature and culture across the line / / edited by Ana Ma. Manzanas.

• Superior document: Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Manzanas Calvo, Ana Ma.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

What constitutes a border situation? How translatable and “portable” is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dynamics fro...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Border Dynamics: From Terminus to Terminator / Ana Mª Manzanas
• Circles and Crosses: Reconsidering Lines of Demarcation / Ana Mª Manzanas
• Up against the Border: A Literary Response / José Pablo Villalobos
• Dispelling the Border Myth: Zonkey Writers and the Black Legend / Édgar Cota-Torres
• Border Voices: Life Writings and Self-Representation of the U.S.-Mexico Frontera / Javier Durán
• Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución is an Avenue / Santiago Vaquera
• “To Hear Another Language”: Lifting the Veil between Langston Hughes and Federico García Lorca / Isabel Soto
• The Brown/Mestiza Metaphor, or the Impertinence against Borders / Isabel Durán
• “A Wall of Barbed Lies”: Absent Borders in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction / Begoña Simal
• Ethnographies of Transnational Migration in Rubén Martínez’s Crossing Over (2001) / Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
• Mapping the Trans/Hispanic Atlantic: Nuyol, Miami, Tenerife, Tangier / Manuel Martín-Rodríguez
• Resisting through Hyphenation: The Ethics of Translating (Im)pure Texts / África Vidal
• Trespassers of Body Boundaries: The Cyborg and the Construction of a Postgendered Posthuman Identity / Ángel Mateos-Aparicio
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX.