Mexico, nation in transit
Subtitle: contemporary representations of Mexican migration to the United States
By: Christina L. Sisk
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Arizona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780816529551
Subjects: Mexican literature; Emigration and immigration in art; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American; Hispanic American authors; History and criticism; American literature; National characteristics, Mexico, in literature; Displacement (Psychology) in art; National characteristics, American, in literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: migrating nation, transnational web of communities; title: Romancing the nation: migration imagined from Mexico City; title: How to cross the border: Instructions for a Fronterizo and for a Migrant; title: Rolas de migración: expressions of Mexicanidad; title: Diary of a macuiltianguense: the transnationalization of local identities; title: Artistic migrations: Mexican filmmakers go to Hollywood; title: Beyond the first generation: Mexican Americans visit Mexico; title: Conclusion:  "I'm Mexican. Pull me over"