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Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher
Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This volume was compiled following the 16th International colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies that Martine Antle and I organized at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999…
"Pesadillas De La Noche, Amanecer De Silencio": Miguel Méndez And Margarita Oropeza, Debra A. Castillo
"Pesadillas De La Noche, Amanecer De Silencio": Miguel Méndez And Margarita Oropeza, Debra A. Castillo
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In many border-related discussions—whether philosophical, anthropological, critical, or fictional—there are typical themes or narrative tics: allusions to the flexible geography that makes the border region both an isolated territory and an analogue for the postmodern condition, the puzzlement over how to understand the role of the "maquiladoras" 'assembly plants' and the area's industrial boom, the awareness of a vast movement of people both north and south, a persistent and nagging phobia about feminization, and about female sexuality. In this paper I will explore these concerns with reference to two novels: Arizonan Miguel Méndez's well-known 1974 novel Peregrinos de Aztlán (Pilgrims …