American Encounters Paperback by Jose Eduardo Limon

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (1999-11-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 264 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807002377
• Item Weight: 371.38 grams
• Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.42 cm

The idea of crossing the border between the United States and what award-winning anthropologist José Limón calls "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. Through literature, film, song, and dance, American Encounters explores an alternative history of attraction and desire between the U.S. and Greater Mexico, offering a vision of hope for the future.

About the Author

José E. Limón, author of Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas, is professor of English and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.