Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States

by Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Book Overview

Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies.

Border Fictions places into dialogue a variety of hemispheric perspectives from Chicana/o, Asian American, American Indian, Latin American,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926785
• ISBN13: 9780813926780
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 1 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary