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Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-violence

Contributor(s): Cortez, Sarah [editor.] | Troncoso, Sergio, 1961- [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Houston, Texas Arte Público Press [2013]Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781611925210; 1611925215.Subject(s): Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization | Drug traffic -- Mexican-American Border Region | Violent crimes -- Mexican-American Border RegionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 972.1 Online resources: Disponible en Digitalia
Contents:
The Tortured Landscape: La frontera más ancha = The widest of borders / Liliana V. Blum -- La guerra, nosotros, la paz = The war, us, the peace / Lolita Bosch -- La batalla de Ciudad Mier = The battle for Ciudad Mier / Diego Osorno -- Espejos, fantasmas y violencia en Ciudad Juárez = Mirrors, ghosts and violence in Ciudad Juárez / María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba. The Personal Stories: Selling Tita's house / Maria Cristina Cigarroa -- Across the river / Sarah Cortez -- There's always music / Celestino Fernández and Jessie K. Finch -- My Tijuana lost / Richard Mora -- The bridge to an alien nation / Paul Pedroza -- Sucking the sweet / José Antonio Rodríguez -- The Sicario in the salon / José Skinner -- A world between two worlds / Sergio Troncoso.
Summary: This anthology combines writings about the impact of drug violence on life and culture along the U.S.-Mexico border. It reveals how this fragile way of life between two cultures, languages, and countries, has been undermined by the drug trade and the crime that accompanies it, with ramifications far beyond the border region.
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The Tortured Landscape: La frontera más ancha = The widest of borders / Liliana V. Blum -- La guerra, nosotros, la paz = The war, us, the peace / Lolita Bosch -- La batalla de Ciudad Mier = The battle for Ciudad Mier / Diego Osorno -- Espejos, fantasmas y violencia en Ciudad Juárez = Mirrors, ghosts and violence in Ciudad Juárez / María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba. The Personal Stories: Selling Tita's house / Maria Cristina Cigarroa -- Across the river / Sarah Cortez -- There's always music / Celestino Fernández and Jessie K. Finch -- My Tijuana lost / Richard Mora -- The bridge to an alien nation / Paul Pedroza -- Sucking the sweet / José Antonio Rodríguez -- The Sicario in the salon / José Skinner -- A world between two worlds / Sergio Troncoso.

This anthology combines writings about the impact of drug violence on life and culture along the U.S.-Mexico border. It reveals how this fragile way of life between two cultures, languages, and countries, has been undermined by the drug trade and the crime that accompanies it, with ramifications far beyond the border region.

English and Spanish.

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