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Border Crossings by Catherine Cucinella - First Edition, 2016 from Macmillan Student Store
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Border Crossings

First  Edition|©2016  Catherine Cucinella

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What are borders? Who are border crossers? These questions and others are addressed by readings from cultural scholars, economists, novelists, poets, political theorists, travel writers, and others in Border Crossings. Through a variety of questions and activies you'll delve into this complex issue in an informed and thoughtful way.

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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

Authors

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.


A brief and versatile reader about borders at an affordable price.

What are borders? Who are border crossers? These questions and others are addressed by readings from cultural scholars, economists, novelists, poets, political theorists, travel writers, and others in Border Crossings. Through a variety of questions and activies you'll delve into this complex issue in an informed and thoughtful way.

Launchpad

Get the e-book, do assignments, take quizzes, prepare for exams and more, to help you achieve success in class.

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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.


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