Author Bio

Linda Egan, Associate Professor of Spanish, UC Davis, is the author of Carlos Monsivas: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico and a book on Sor Juana.

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Mary K. Long, Director of International Spanish for the Professions, University of Colorado, Boulder, has written on the work of Salvador Novo and on cross-cultural exchange between Latin America and the United States in the business and non-profit sectors.

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Main Description

The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. The contributors, all of whom have personal experience with the challenges of bi-cultural and bi-national living, discuss travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements.

In a time of ever-increasing migration of capital and human beings, this book turns on its head the usual perspective of U.S. economic and cultural dominance in order to deepen understanding of the bi-national relationship.

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Reviews

"This is a book to read now and for the future."
--Confluencia

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Recommended.
--Choice

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A first and a must for 21st-century borderlands studies.
--Norma Klahn , University of California, Santa Cruz

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This fascinating work proves to us that Mexico and the United States are notjust 'distant neighbors' but can share a common culture of decency and respect for human rights.
--Elena Poniatowska

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Linda Egan and Mary K. Long

Part 1: Separate and Unequal: Mexico Struggles for Autonomy, 1920-1960
Chapter 1. Writing Home: The United States through the Eyes of Traveling Mexican Artists and Writers, 1920-1940
Mary K. Long
Chapter 2. Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bolvar Remembered
Robert Conn
Chapter 3. Salvador Novo: The American Friend, the American Critic
Salvador A. Oropesa
Chapter 4. From the Silver Screen to the Land: Confronting the United States and Hollywood in "El Indio" Fernndez's The Pearl
Fernando Fabio Snchez

Part 2: Inseparable Differences: Mexico Adapts U.S. Models, 1960-1990
Chapter 5. Carlos Monsivis "Translates" Tom Wolfe
Linda Egan
Chapter 6. From Fags to Gays: Political Adaptations and Cultural Translations in the Mexican Gay Liberation Movement
Hctor Domnguez-Ruvalcaba
Chapter 7. Misguided Idealism on a Mission of Mercy: Eleanore Wharton, U.S. Do-Gooder
Danny J. Anderson
Chapter 8. "La pura gringuez": The Essential United States in Jos Agustn, Carlos Fuentes, and Ricardo Aguilar Melantzn
Maarten van Delden

Part 3: At Home with the Other: Mexico Deals with Virtual Nationhood, 1990-Present
Chapter 9. If North Were South: Traps of Cultural Hybridity in Xavier Velasco's Diablo Guardin
Oswaldo Estrada
Chapter 10. "Mexican" Novels on the Lesser United States by Andrs Acosta, Juvenal Acosta, Boullosa, Puga, Servn, and Xoconostle
Emily Hind
Chapter 11. Political Cartoons in Cyberspace: Rearticulating Mexican and U.S. Cultural Identity in the Global Era
Hilda Chacn
Chapter 12. A Clash of Civilizing Gestures: Mexican Intellectuals Confront a Harvard Scholar
Ignacio Corona
Chapter 13. Jorge Ramos Reads North from South
Beth E. Jrgensen

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