By D. Robert DeChaine,John Louis Lucaites,Bernadette Marie Calafell,Karma R. Chávez,Josue David Cisneros,Anne Teresa Demo,Lisa A. Flores,Dustin Bradley Goltz,Marouf Hasian,Michelle A. Holling,Julia R. Johnson,Zach Justus,Diane M. Keeling,George F. McHendry,T
ISBN-10: 0817357165
ISBN-13: 9780817357160
A “border” is a robust and flexible notion, variously invoked because the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for outlining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for either the empowerment and subjugation of any given population. either genuine and imagined, the border separates a quarter of actual and symbolic alternate whose geographical, political, financial, and cultural interactions undergo profoundly on renowned understandings and reviews of citizenship and identity.
The border’s rhetorical importance is nowhere extra obvious, nor its results extra targeted, than at the frontier among the USA and Mexico. frequently understood as an unruly boundary in dire desire of containment from the ravages of criminals, unlawful extraterrestrial beings, and different bad threats to the nationwide physique, this geopolitical locus exemplifies how normative buildings of “proper”; border relatives toughen definitions people citizenship, which in flip may end up in nervousness, unrest, and violence established round the fight to outline what it capacity to be a member of a countrywide political community.
Contributors
Bernadette Marie Calafell / Karma R. Chávez / Josue David Cisneros / D. Robert DeChaine / Anne Teresa Demo / Lisa A. Flores / Dustin Bradley Goltz / Marouf Hasian Jr. / Michelle A. Holling / Julia R. Johnson / Zach Juatus / Diane M. Keeling / John Louis Lucaites / George F. McHendry Jr. / Toby Miller / Kent A. Ono / Brian L. Ott / Kimberlee Pérez / Mary Ann Villarreal
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Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit) by D. Robert DeChaine,John Louis Lucaites,Bernadette Marie Calafell,Karma R. Chávez,Josue David Cisneros,Anne Teresa Demo,Lisa A. Flores,Dustin Bradley Goltz,Marouf Hasian,Michelle A. Holling,Julia R. Johnson,Zach Justus,Diane M. Keeling,George F. McHendry,T
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