Global Mexican Cultural Productions

ROSANA BLANCO-CANOAssistant Professor of Spanish at Trinity University, USA. RITA URQUIJO-RUIZAssociate Professor of Literature at Trinity University, USA.

• Preface; A.Madrid Introduction: Transnational Transgressions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Mexican Cultural Productions; R.E.Urquijo-Ruiz & R.Blanco-Cano PART I: AND WHAT ARE TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN BORDER CULTURES? Wet Minds, Bookleggers, and the Place of Borders and Diasporas in U.S. Academic Circles; J.Durán Fronterizo and Transborder Existences: Binding Megascripts in a Transnational World; C.Vélez-Ibáñez Transnational Mexicano Cultural Production: El Otro Lado; E.Hernández PART II: VOICES AND LITERATURES IN LAS FRONTERAS Dos Mundos: Two Celebrations in Laredo, Texas - Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz and The Pocahontas Pageant of the George Washington's Birthday Celebration; N.E.Cantú Transnational Narratives, Cultural Production, and Representations: Blurred Subjects in Juárez, México; M.S.Tabuenca PART III: PERFORMING BORDERS: DE AQUI Y DE ALLÁ (FROM HERE AND FROM THERE) Performing Borders: De aquí y de allá. (Preliminary Notes on Mexican and Chicana/o Transnational Performance Art); L.G.Gutiérrez Aquí y Allá: Distance and Difference in Monica Palacios's Transfronteriza Chicana Performance; M.T.Danielson Selena's 'Como la Flor': Laying the Sound-Track of Latinidad; D.Parédez PART IV: DE IMÁGENES Y SUENOS: TRANSNATIONAL BORDER VISUAL CULTURES De Imágenes y Sueños: Transnational Mexican Visual Culture; T.Ybarra-Frausto Coming and Going: Transborder Visual Art in Tijuana; N.Iglesias-Prieto PART V: YOUNG VOICES AT THE CROSSROADS: STUDENT ARTISTIC AND SCHOLARLY INTERVENTIONS Petition; A.Sotelo Self-Portrait; A.Sotelo Socialized into 'Whiteness'; R.J.Rojas From My Street to Main Street; M.Guerra PART VI: INTERVIEWS WITH TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN ARTISTS Interview with Yolanda Cruz; R.Blanco-Cano Interview with Rosina Conde; R.E.Urquijo-Ruiz & R.Blanco-Cano