Global Mexican Cultural Productions [Paperback]

In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency.Preface; A.Madrid Introduction: Transnational Transgressions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Mexican Cultural Productions; R.E.Urquijo-Ruiz & R.Blanco-Cano PART I: AND WHAT ARE TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN BORDER CULTURES? Wet Minds, Bookleggers, and the Place of Borders and Diasporas in U.S. Academic Circles; J.Dur?n Fronterizo and Transborder Existences: Binding Megascripts in a Transnational World; C.V?lez-Ib??ez Transnational Mexicano Cultural Production: El Otro Lado; E.Hern?ndez PART II: VOICES AND LITERATURES IN LAS FRONTERAS Dos Mundos: Two Celebrations in Laredo, Texas - Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz and The Pocahontas Pageant of the George Washington's Birthday Celebration; N.E.Cant? Transnational Narratives, Cultural Production, and Representations: Blurred Subjects in Ju?rez, M?xico; M.S.Tabuenca PART III: PERFORMING BORDERS: DE AQUI Y DE ALL? (FROM HERE AND FROM THERE) Performing Borders: De aqu? y de all?. (Preliminary Notes on Mexican and Chicana/o Transnational Performance Art); L.G.Guti?rrez Aqu? y All?: Distance and Difference in Monica Palacios's Transfronteriza Chicana Performance; M.T.Danielson Selena's 'Como la Flor': Laying the Sound-Track of Latinidad; D.Par?dez PART IV: DE IM?GENES Y SUENOS: TRANSNATIONAL BORDER VISUAL CULTURES De Im?genes y Sue?os: Transnational Mexican Visual Culture; T.Ybarra-Frausto Coming and Going: Transborder Visual Art in Tijuana; N.Iglesias-Prieto PART V: YOUNG VOICES AT THE CROSSROADS: STUDENT ARTISTIC AND SCHOLARLY INTERVENTIONS Petition; A.Sotelo Self-Portrait; A.Sotelo Socialized into 'Whiteness'; R.J.Rojas From My Street to Main Street; M.Guerra PART VI: INTERVIEWS WITH TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN ARTISTS Interview with Yolanda ls&