American Encounters Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture

Name: American Encounters Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture
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ISBN: 9780807002377

ISBN-10: 0807002372

ISBN-13: 9780807002377

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jose Limon

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The idea of crossing the border between the U.S. and "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. In American Encounters, award-winning anthropologist LimÛn offers an alternative history of attraction and des ire between the U.S. and Mexico that both embraces the Taco Bell chihuahua and envisions hope for the future of border relations. From the writing of Katherine Anne Porter to the life of the late Chicana pop star Selena; from the career of the distinguished Mexican anthropologist Gamio to Henry Cisneros and the 1990 Texas gubernatorial campaign, LimÛn explores history, literat ure, film, song, and dance to understand the deeply entwined and ambivalent…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 11/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Introduction



The Other American South: Southern Culture and Greater Mexico



Nation, Love, and Labor Lost: Katherine Anne Porter and Manuel Gamio



Greater Mexico, African - Americans , and the Americanization of Psychoanalysis



De Acï¿½ De Este Lado: Screening Domination and Desire



Tex Sex Mex: Dirty Mexican Men Aztec Gods, Good Ole Boys and New Texas Women



D0mination, Death, and Desire: the Vicissitudes 0f Innocence


Epilogue: Imagining and Desiring: Greater Mexico and the United States


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index