Dangerous Border Crossers Contributor(s): Gomez-Pena, Guillermo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415182379 ISBN-13: 9780415182379 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: A self-described migrant provocateur with a "hyper-Mexican mustache and loungy sideburns," Guillermo Gomez-Pena performs as he lives and travels -- from America through Europe, Asia, and North Africa -- making his border crossings and crosscultural misencounters into art. He reflects in Spanish, English, and Spanglish, seeking out Mexican and Chicano communities, retracing the roots of his heritage, and revisiting the many overlapping cultures to which he belongs: diasporic Latin Americans, people on the margins of society, the hybrids, the renegades. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Performance - Art | Individual Artists - General - Social Science | Minority Studies |
Dewey: 709.2 |
LCCN: 99052962 |
Lexile Measure: 1320 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 8.8" (1.15 lbs) 308 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This anthology of Gómez-Peña's performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds an extraordinary light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur. |