Mexico, Nation in Transit: Contemporary Representations of Mexican Migration to the United States

by Christina L. Sisk

Book Overview

Mexico, Nation in Transit examines how the Mexican migrant population in the United States is represented in the Mexican national im-aginary--on both sides of the border. Exploring representations of migration in literature, film, and music produced in the past twenty years, Christina Sisk argues that Mexico is imagined as a nation that exists outside of its territorial borders and into the United States. Although some Americans feel threatened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816530653
• ISBN13: 9780816530656
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"