The New World Border

by Gomez-Pena, Guillermo

• ISBN13: 9780872863132
• ISBN10: 0872863131
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: City Lights Books

Summary

Poetry. Latin American Studies. THE NEW WORLD BORDER is a new collection of essays, poems, and performance text through which Gomez-Pena muses on matters of race, nationality, language, and identity. The book is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cultures, and a head-on collision with real and imagined borders. Gomez-Pena won international acclaim for his efforts to create a hybrid culture and articulate a borderless ethos, and has been called an intercultural interpreter, reverse anthropologist, experimental linguist, and political artist of the first order. The Village Voice proclaims "In everything he does, he remains an indomitably playful phrasemaker; a fertile rethinker of contradictions, clichA[aAs, and conundrums; and an inspiring recruiter for a playground army of cultural pluralists."

Table of Contents

Introduction	i
Freefalling Toward a Borderless Future	1	(4)
The Free Trade Art Agreement	5	(16)
The New World Border	21	(27)
I Just Don't know What to Think of Your Country	48	(2)
Real-Life Border Thriller	50	(8)
I Could Only Fight Back in My Poetry	58	(2)
The Psycho in the Lobby of the Theater	60	(3)
The'90s Culture of Xenophobia	63	(10)
News from Aztlan Liberado	73	(4)
Chicanost: Radio Nuevo Orden	77	(3)
Colonial Dreams/Post--Colonial Nightmares	80	(31)
Naftaztec: Pirate Cyber-TV for A.D. 2000	111	(16)
Borderama	127	(28)
A Seminar on Museum Race Relations	155	(6)
On U.S./Mexico Relations	161	(4)
15 Ways of Relating Across the Border	165	(4)
Terreno Peligroso/Danger Zone	169	(10)
Des-Encuentro DE 3 MUN-2	179	(3)
The Artist as Criminal	182	(6)
Dedicatorias	188	(2)
Besame Mucho	190	(1)
El Rey Del Cruce	190	(3)
The Last Migration	193	(45)
Where Were You During All Those Years?	238	(2)
Glossary of Borderismos	240	(5)
Appendix: End-of-The-Century Topography Review	245