Tijuana
Subtitle: Stories on the Border
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 8, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780520089464
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Modern fiction; Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico); Latin American Novel And Short Story; Fiction - General; Fiction; Translations into English; Short Stories (single author); Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Short stories, Mexican; Social life and customs
First sentence: In an article on the cultural impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Carlos Monsivais suggests that the old definition of Mexican identity-most famously articulated by Octavio Paz in his controversial 1950s best-seller, Labyrinth of Solitude-is based on a binary play of opposites: civilization vs. barbarism, Mexico City vs. the provinces, culture vs. desolation.