Culture across borders : Mexican immigration & popular culture /

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Imprint:Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1998.
Description:xiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3055319
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Other authors / contributors:Maciel, David.
Herrera-Sobek, María.
ISBN:0816518327 (acid-free, archival-quality paper)
0816518335 (pbk. : acid-free, archival-quality paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Culture across Borders / David R. Maciel and Maria Herrera-Sobek
  • 1. "What Goes Around, Comes Around": Political Practice and Cultural Response in the Internationalization of Mexican Labor, 1890-1997 / Juan Gomez-Quinones and David R. Maciel
  • 2. Undocumented Crossings: Narratives of Mexican Immigration to the United States / Alberto Ledesma
  • 3. Telling Images Bracket the "Broken-Promise(d) Land": The Culture of Immigration and the Immigration of Culture across Borders / Victor Alejandro Sorell
  • 4. The Celluloid Immigrant: The Narrative Films of Mexican Immigration / David R. Maciel and Maria Rosa Garcia-Acevedo
  • 5. Jokelore, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Dexterity: The Construction of the Mexican Immigrant in Chicano Humor / Jose R. Reyna and Maria Herrera-Sobek
  • 6. The Corrido as Hypertext: Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Films and the Mexican/Chicano Ballad / Maria Herrera-Sobek.