The Canadian response to the political, cultural, and social crossing of American borders in Amigo's Blue Guitar by Joan MacLeod and Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdecchia is shown as self-defensive, even though most Canadians have in their own histories negotiated a border. Amigo's Blue Guitar shows how members of a Canadian family fictionalize the experience of a political refugee from El Salvador whom they have sponsored, in order to authenticate or express positive self-images. Fronteras Americanas interrogates the "Latin" experience in North America, exploding stereotypes constructed by the media, and questioning the way self-identity may be constructed in response to the dominant "Saxon" culture. However, both plays also imagine...
If the US-Mexico border region is complex to define in terms of its identity (Mexican-American, Mexi...
This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.This paper examin...
Since the early-twentieth-century settlement of the region of Aisén, in southern Chile, residents of...
Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas, a very successful one-person show which premiered in To...
In Performing Borders: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, I examine selected interdisciplinary and multi-media wo...
During fall semester of 2010, I began taking students on five-day field trips to the Arizona–Mexico ...
Canadian multiculturalism inspires Canadian immigration institutions in the shaping of their propaga...
[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : Thèses et mémoires - FAS - Département d'études anglais...
International audienceIn North America, border studies generally focus on two land boundaries, the C...
textDestined companions of the calling (compañeros del destino), huapango arribeño music practitione...
Immigrants must cross two barriers when entering the United States, the physical border and a cultur...
This article applies an eco-critical approach to contemporary American fiction about the Canada-US b...
The voice that comes from Indigenous artists, writers and activists in the Americas, in artistic wor...
International audienceThere is a common Latin American identity e, in spite of the heterogeneity of ...
This project compares mestizaje in Mexican American communities of the Texas-Mexico border and métis...
If the US-Mexico border region is complex to define in terms of its identity (Mexican-American, Mexi...
This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.This paper examin...
Since the early-twentieth-century settlement of the region of Aisén, in southern Chile, residents of...
Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas, a very successful one-person show which premiered in To...
In Performing Borders: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, I examine selected interdisciplinary and multi-media wo...
During fall semester of 2010, I began taking students on five-day field trips to the Arizona–Mexico ...
Canadian multiculturalism inspires Canadian immigration institutions in the shaping of their propaga...
[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : Thèses et mémoires - FAS - Département d'études anglais...
International audienceIn North America, border studies generally focus on two land boundaries, the C...
textDestined companions of the calling (compañeros del destino), huapango arribeño music practitione...
Immigrants must cross two barriers when entering the United States, the physical border and a cultur...
This article applies an eco-critical approach to contemporary American fiction about the Canada-US b...
The voice that comes from Indigenous artists, writers and activists in the Americas, in artistic wor...
International audienceThere is a common Latin American identity e, in spite of the heterogeneity of ...
This project compares mestizaje in Mexican American communities of the Texas-Mexico border and métis...
If the US-Mexico border region is complex to define in terms of its identity (Mexican-American, Mexi...
This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.This paper examin...
Since the early-twentieth-century settlement of the region of Aisén, in southern Chile, residents of...