Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border

by Josh Kun and Fiamma Montezemolo

Book Overview

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana's unique infrastructural, demographic, and environmental challenges. They delve into its musical countercultures, architectural ruins, cinema, and emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor examines fictional representations of Tijuana's past as a Prohibition-era "city of sin" for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on the city's recent struggles with kidnappings and drug violence. In an interview, N stor Garc a Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in Culturas h bridas (1990), his watershed book about Latin America and cultural hybridity. Taken together, the selections present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a major border city in the age of globalization.

Contributors. Tito Alegr a, Humberto F lix Berumen, Roberto Castillo Udiarte, Iain Chambers, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Teddy Cruz, Ejival, Tarek Elhaik, Guillermo Fadanelli, N stor Garc a Canclini, Ingrid Hern ndez, Jennifer Insley-Pruitt, Kathryn Kopinak, Josh Kun, Jesse Lerner, Fiamma Montezemolo, Rene Peralta, Rafa Saavedra, Luc a Sanrom n, Santiago Vaquera-V squez, Heriberto Y pez

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822352907
• ISBN13: 9780822352907
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"