CONVERSATIONS WITH MEXICAN AMERICAN WRITERS by Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, Nancy Sullivan ( 9781604732146 )

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Title:

CONVERSATIONS WITH MEXICAN AMERICAN WRITERS
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES IN THE BORDERLANDS

By:

Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, Nancy Sullivan

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1604732148

ISBN 13:

9781604732146

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Pub. date:

21 April, 2009

Pages:

192

Synopsis:

Through a series of interviews with nine acclaimed authors, Conversations with Mexican American Writers explores the languages and literature of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a confluence of social, cultural, historical, and political forces. In their conversations, these authors discuss their linguistic choices within the context of language policies and language attitudes in the United States, as well as the East Coast publishing industry's mandates.The interviews reveal the cultural and geographical marginalization endured by Mexican American writers, whose voices are muted because they produce literature from the remotest parts of the country and about people on the social fringes. Out of these interviews emerges a portrait of the borderlands as a dynamic space of international exchange, one that is situated and can only be understood fully within a global context.

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University Press of Mississippi

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