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Locates the study of Chicano culture in a social context. This title examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. It provides a model for a kind of US cultural studies.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Tracking Borders

PART ONE COMPARATIVE INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

1. Cultural Theory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
2. Americo Paredes and Decolonization
3· Changing Borderland Subjectivities
4· The Production of Space by Arturo Islas
and Carmen Lomas Garza

PART TWO EL OTRO LADO I THE OTHER SIDE

5. On the Bad Edge of La Frontera
6. Tijuana Calling: Travel Writing, Autoethnography,
and Video Art
7· Remapping American Cultural Studies

Afterword: Frontejas to El Vez
Notes
References
Index

Border Matters Remapping American Cultural

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/1997
      ISBN13: 9780520206823, 978-0520206823
      ISBN10: 0520206827
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Locates the study of Chicano culture in a social context. This title examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. It provides a model for a kind of US cultural studies.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Preface
      Introduction: Tracking Borders

      PART ONE COMPARATIVE INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

      1. Cultural Theory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
      2. Americo Paredes and Decolonization
      3· Changing Borderland Subjectivities
      4· The Production of Space by Arturo Islas
      and Carmen Lomas Garza

      PART TWO EL OTRO LADO I THE OTHER SIDE

      5. On the Bad Edge of La Frontera
      6. Tijuana Calling: Travel Writing, Autoethnography,
      and Video Art
      7· Remapping American Cultural Studies

      Afterword: Frontejas to El Vez
      Notes
      References
      Index

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