Mexico Reading the United States

by Egan, Linda; Long, Mary K.

• ISBN13: 9780826516398
• ISBN10: 0826516394
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Linda Egan, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of California-Davis, is the author of Carlos Monsivas: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico and a book on Sor Juana. Mark 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 nonprofit sectors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Separate and Unequal Mexico Struggles for Autonomy, 1920-1960
Writing Home The United States through the Eyes of Traveling Mexican Artists and Writers, 1920-1940	p. 21
Vasconcelos as Screenwriter Bolívar Remembered	p. 41
Salvador Novo The American Friend, the American Critic	p. 57
From the Silver Screen to the Countryside Confronting the United States and Hollywood in "El Indio" Fernández's The Pearl	p. 78
Inseparable Differences Mexico Adapts U.S. Models, 1960-1990s
Carlos Monsiváis "Translates" Tom Wolfe	p. 99
From Fags to Gays Political Adaptations and Cultural Translations in the Mexican Gay Liberation Movement	p. 116
Misguided Idealism on a Mission of Mercy Eleanore Wharton, U.S. Do-Gooder	p. 135
"La pura gringuez" The Essential United States in José Agustín, Carlos Fuentes, and Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón	p. 154
At Home with the Other Mexico Deals with Virtual Nationhood into the Twenty-first Century
If North Were South Traps of Cultural Hybridity in Xavier Velasco's Diablo Guardián	p. 179
"Mexican" Novels on the Lesser United States Works by Andrés Acosta, Juvenal Acosta, Boullosa, Puga, Servín, and Xoconostle	p. 198
Political Cartoons in Cyberspace Rearticulating Mexican and U.S. Cultural Identity in the Global Era	p. 219
A Clash of Civilizing Gestures Mexican Intellectuals Confront a Harvard Scholar	p. 252
Jorge Ramos Reads North from South	p. 278
Contributors	p. 297
Index	p. 301
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