Naïve & Abroad: Mexico

Naïve & Abroad: Mexico

Author: Marcus Henderson Wilder

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-09-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1462046819

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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS~News. Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner.Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one.Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way.Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet.Pieter, The Netherlands I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish my students follow the Camino via the Internet. Cesiah, International Languages Department Coordinator We are living it through Marcus Wilders eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure.Elizabeth, San Antonio My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive.JoeLyn, Dallas I am fascinated by your stories.Memo, Laredo I bookmarked your page. I was captured.Waltrud, Chicago I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative.J.J., San Antonio


Naive & Abroad

Naive & Abroad

Author: Marcus Henderson Wilder

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 0595467113

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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner." Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News "Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, & Chaucer rolled into one." Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist "Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way." Sue Kenney, Canadian Author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim "I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet." Pieter, The Netherlands "I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish . my students follow the Camino via the Internet." Cesiah, International Languages Dept. Coordinator "We are living it through Marcus Wilder's eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure." Elizabeth, San Antonio "My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive." JoeLyn, Dallas "I am fascinated by your stories." Memo, Laredo "I bookmarked your page. I was captured." Waltrud, Chicago "I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative." J.J., San Antonio


The Beats in Mexico

The Beats in Mexico

Author: David Stephen Calonne

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-04-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 197882873X

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Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider the important roles played by lesser-known female Beat writers. The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti. It also devotes individual chapters to women such as Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger, who each made Mexico a central setting of their work and interrogated the misogyny they encountered in both American and Mexican culture. The Beats in Mexico not only considers individual Beat writers, but also places them within a larger history of countercultural figures, from D.H. Lawrence to Antonin Artaud to Jim Morrison, who mythologized Mexico as the land of the Aztecs and Maya, where shamanism and psychotropic drugs could take you on a trip far beyond the limits of the American imagination.


Foreigners in Their Native Land

Foreigners in Their Native Land

Author: David J. Weber

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780826335104

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Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by David J. Weber's essays, capture the essence of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico.


Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945

Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945

Author: Daniela Gleizer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9004262105

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Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.” Through her analysis of Mexico’s role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country’s traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.


Two Nations Indivisible

Two Nations Indivisible

Author: Shannon K. O'Neil

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0199898340

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Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords. Without a doubt, the drug war is real. In the last six years, over 60,000 people have been murdered in narco-related crimes. But, there is far more to Mexico's story than this gruesome narrative would suggest. While thugs have been grabbing the headlines, Mexico has undergone an unprecedented and under-publicized political, economic, and social transformation. In her groundbreaking book, Two Nations Indivisible, Shannon K. O'Neil argues that the United States is making a grave mistake by focusing on the politics of antagonism toward Mexico. Rather, we should wake up to the revolution of prosperity now unfolding there. The news that isn't being reported is that, over the last decade, Mexico has become a real democracy, providing its citizens a greater voice and opportunities to succeed on their own side of the border. Armed with higher levels of education, upwardly-mobile men and women have been working their way out of poverty, building the largest, most stable middle class in Mexico's history. This is the Mexico Americans need to get to know. Now more than ever, the two countries are indivisible. It is past time for the U.S. to forge a new relationship with its southern neighbor. Because in no uncertain terms, our future depends on it.


Naïve and Abroad: Spain

Naïve and Abroad: Spain

Author: Marcus Wilder

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0595493963

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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner."-Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News "Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one."-Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist "Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way."-Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim "I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet."-Pieter, The Netherlands "I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish . my students follow the Camino via the Internet."-Cesiah, International Languages Department Coordinator "We are living it through Marcus Wilder's eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure."-Elizabeth, San Antonio "My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive."-JoeLyn, Dallas "I am fascinated by your stories."-Memo, Laredo "I bookmarked your page. I was captured."-Waltrud, Chicago "I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative."-J.J., San Antonio


The Mexico Reader

The Mexico Reader

Author: Gilbert M. Joseph

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2022-08-29

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 1478022973

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The Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos Méxicos—the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the extraordinary power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church to Mexico’s uneven postrevolutionary modernization, from chronic economic and political instability to its rich cultural heritage. Bringing together over eighty selections that include poetry, folklore, photo essays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, journalism, and scholarly writing, this volume highlights the voices of everyday Mexicans—indigenous peoples, artists, soldiers, priests, peasants, and workers. It also includes pieces by politicians and foreign diplomats; by literary giants Octavio Paz, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Carlos Fuentes; and by and about revolutionary leaders Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. This revised and updated edition features new selections that address twenty-first-century developments, including the rise of narcopolitics, the economic and personal costs of the United States’ mass deportation programs, the political activism of indigenous healers and manufacturing workers, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mexico Reader is an essential resource for travelers, students, and experts alike.