New World Border Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century

Name: New World Border Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
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ISBN: 9780872863132

ISBN-10: 0872863131

ISBN-13: 9780872863132

Edition: N/A

Authors: Guillermo Gomez-Pena

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.056



Introduction


Freefalling Toward a Borderless Future


The Free Trade Art Agreement


The New World Border


I Just Don't Know What to Think of Your Country


Real-Life Border Thriller


I Could Only Fight Back in My Poetry


The Psycho in the Lobby of the Theater


The '90s Culture of Xenophobia


News from Aztlan Liberado


Chicanost: Radio Nuevo Orden


Colonial Dreams/Post-Colonial Nightmares


Naftaztec: Pirate Cyber-TV for A.D. 2000


Borderama


A Seminar on Museum Race Relations


On U.S./Mexico Relations


15 Ways of Relating Across the Border


Terreno Peligroso/Danger Zone


Des-Encuentro De 3 Mun-2


The Artist as Criminal


Dedicatorias


Besame Mucho


El Rey Del Cruce


The Last Migration


Where Were You During All Those Years?


Glossary of Borderismos


Appendix: End-of-the-Century Topography Review