Abstract

This essay maps the territory of Tijuana through the writings of six authors who live in this city. Their works subvert the three most common myths about the city: Tijuana as a city of vice, as a city of transit, and as a laboratory of postmodernity. This essay also critiques the exclusively metaphorical approach to the border that prevails among U.S. scholars and presents it as a concrete sociopolitical space imbued with meaning, history, and a sense of belonging

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