Mexico reading the United States

Abstract

Introduction: - Linda Egan and Mary K. Long PART 1. Separate and Unequal: Mexico Struggles for Autonomy, 1920-1960 Chapter 1. Writing Home: The United States Through the Eyes of Traveling Artists and Writers, 1920-1940 - Mary K. Long Chapter 2. Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bolivar Remembered - Robert Conn Chapter 3. Salvador Novo: The American Friend, the American Critic - Salvador A. Oropesa Chapter 4. From the Silver Screen to the Land: Confronting the United States and Hollywood in El Indio Fernandez's The Pearl - Fernando Fabio Sanchez Part 2. Inseparable Differences: Mexico Adapts U.S. Models, 1960-1990 Chapter 5. Carlos Monsivais Translates Tom Wolfe - Linda Egan Chapter 6. From Fags to Gays: Political Adaptations and Cultural Translations in the Gay Liberation Movement - Hector Dominguez-Rivalcaba Chapter 7. Misguided Idealism on a Mission of Mercy: Eleanore Wharton, U.S. Do-Gooder - Danny J. Anderson Chapter 8. La pura gringuez: The Essential United States in Jose Agustin, Carlos Fuentes, and Ricardo Aguilar Melantzon - Maarten van Delden Part 3. At Home with the Other: Mexico Deals with Virtual Nationhood, 1990 - Present Chapter 9. If North Were South: Traps of Cultural Hybridity in Xavier Velasco's Diablo Guardian - Oswaldo Estrada Chapter 10. Mexican Novels on the Lesser United States by Andres Acosta, Juvenal Acosta, Boullosa, Puga, Servin, and Xoconostle - Emily Hind Chapter 11. Political Cartoons in Cyberspace: Rearticulating and U.S. Cultural Identity in the Global Era - Hilda Chacon Chapter 12. A Clash of Civilizing Gestures: Intellectuals Confront a Harvard Scholar - Ignacio Corona Chapter 13. Jorge Ramos Reads North from South - Beth E. Jorgensen.