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Border Crossings

First  Edition©2016 Catherine Cucinella

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Border Crossings explores questions around the central concept of borders and border crossings: What are borders? Who are border crossers? How do borders influence the ways we speak and write? How does technology and social media change our understanding of borders? Readings by cultural scholars, economists, novelists, poets, political theorists, travel writers, and others take up these issues and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students and the website for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.

The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting new line of single-theme readers, each featuring Bedford’s trademark care and quality. An Editorial Board of more than a dozen compositionists at schools focusing on specific themes assist in the development of the series. The readers in the series collect thoughtfully chosen readings sufficient for an entire writing course—about 30 selections—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students make inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as monsters, happiness, money, food, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, each focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. The Web site for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What Are Borders?

Robert Frost, Mending Wall

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen, A Very Bordered World

Stuart Elden, Territory without Borders

Reed Karaim, Building Walls

Mark Stein, How the States Got Their Shapes

Chapter 2: Why Do Geographical Borders Matter?

Gloria Anzaldúa, To Live in the Borderlands Means You

Norma Cantú, Living on the Border: A Wound that Will Not Heal

Paul Theroux, The Country Just over the Fence

Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart, Canada-U.S. Border Communities: What the People Have to Say

Heewon Chang, Re-Examining the Rhetoric of the "Cultural Border"

Bill Moyers and Sherman Alexie, Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders

The Provincial Freeman, Mason and Dixon’s Line

Kate DeVan Filer, Our Most Famous Border

U.S. Congress, The Missouri Compromise

Chapter 3: How Do Borders Influence the Ways We Write and Speak?

Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue

Manuel Muñoz, Leave Your Name at the Border

Amy Tan, Mother Tongue

François Grosjean, Change of Language, Change of Personality

Steve Inskeep and Michele Norris, Living in Two Worlds, but with Just One Language

Karla D. Scott, Communication Strategies across Cultural Borders

Kristen Hawley Turner, Digitalk: A New Literacy for a Digital Generation

Chapter 4: Does Creativity Transcend Borders?

Elizabeth Bishop, The Map

Omar Akram, Can Music Bridge Cultures and Promote Peace?

John M. Eger, Art as a Universal Language

Ann Marie Leimer, Cruel Beauty, Precarious Breath: Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border

Gabriela Valdivia, Joseph Palis, and Matthew Reilly, Borders, Border-Crossing, and Political Art in North Carolina

David Avalos, Border Fence as Möbius Strip

Naomi Shihab Nye, Poetry Peddler

Chapter 5: Can We Rethink a World without Borders?

Gabriel Popescu, Borders in the Era of Globalization

David Kinkela, Neil Maher, and Donald Worster, Revisiting a "World without Borders": An Interview with Donald Worster

Michael A. Clemens,  A World without Borders Makes Economic Sense

Shaun Raviv, If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated?

Stefany Anne Golberg, World without Borders

Marilyn Chin, Monologue: Grandmother Wong’s New Year Blessings

Catherine Cucinella

Catherine Cucinella is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos where she also directs General Education Writing. Much of her research focuses on women poet and writers, body and gender theory, and ethnic American literatures, and she has written and edited two books on these subjects: Poetics of the Body and Contemporary American Women Poets. She also teaches courses in composition studies, pedagogy, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is editor of Border Crossings.