>>The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border

ISBN: 0-81662-999-4
224 pp. | paper only | $19.00

Claire Fox

Starting with a discussion of photography and films about the Mexican Revolution, The Fence and the River traces the representations of this renowned border in twentieth-century art and popular culture. Also explores Mexican novels and films about border crossing, images of the fence and the river in Chicano/a art and documentary video, border-crossing performance art, and the futuristic border of speculative fiction. Examines the work of activists along the border and the writing of U.S. and Mexican intellectuals.