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Tables of Contents for Writing on the Edge
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
Part 1
from Mi Tierra
3
3
Ray Gonzalez
``Negra''
6
3
Luis Alberto Urrea
from Guerrero Viejo
9
3
Elena Poniatowska
from The Desert Smells Like Rain
12
5
Gary Paul Nabhan
from Pilgrims in Aztlan
17
4
Miguel Mendez
from Floating Kingdom
21
4
George Rabasa
from Innocent Darkness
25
4
Edward R. F. Sheehan
``When It Comes to Class: Viola Barragan''
29
4
Rolando Hinojosa
``Lucky Strike''
33
6
Gabriel Trujillo Munoz
``El Otro Lado''
39
6
Ruben Martinez
Part 2
from Rain of Gold
45
4
Victor Villasenor
``Mericans''
49
3
Sandra Cisneros
from Rainbow's End
52
7
Genaro Gonzalez
``This Memory Begins with Flight''
59
5
Luis J. Rodriguez
from Canicula
64
3
Norma Elia Cantu
``Laredo, Texas''
67
5
Vladimir Mayakovsky
from The Rain God
72
5
Arturo Islas
``I Will Send For You or I Will Come Home Rich''
77
6
Richard Rodriguez
``The Trouble with English''
83
4
Gloria Lopez-Stafford
``Los mexicanos que hablan ingles/The Mexicans Who Speak English'' collected
87
4
Americo Paredes
Part 3
``To Live in the Borderlands Means You ...''
91
2
Gloria Anzaldua
``Rio Grande''
93
2
Jose Antonio Burciaga
``Nos Sentamos, Part 6: El Paso''
95
2
Ricardo Sanchez
``Journeys: El Paso/Juarez, 1984''
97
2
Benjamin Alire Saenz
``Naturalization Papers''
99
2
Myriam Moscona
``To Tijuana''
100
1
Miguel de Anda Jacobsen
``A Border Rose''
101
2
Robert L. Jones
``Legal Alien''
103
1
Pat Mora
``To My Fatherland''
104
1
Trinidad V. Sanchez
``Dog Days''
105
4
Part 4
``Two Faces, One Reality''
109
4
Brianda Domecq
from La Frontera
113
4
Alan Weisman
from The Lightning of August
117
5
Jorge Ibarguengoitia
``Rough Portrait''
122
2
Barbara Jacobs
from Lines and Shadows
124
4
Joseph Wambaugh
from Murieron a mitad del rio (They Died in the Middle of the River)
128
5
Luis Spota
``Sonoyta Interlude''
133
5
Tom Miller
from Frontera Dreams
138
3
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Border Dictionary/Diccionario Fronterizo
141
8
Victor Ochoa
Part 5
Section 1
from The Devil in Texas
149
4
Aristeo Brito
``Stephen Crane in Mexico (II)''
153
4
Stephen Crane
from The Old Gringo
157
4
Carlos Fuentes
from The Underdogs
161
2
Mariano Azuela
``Endymion; or, On the Border''
163
5
John Reed
``My First Glimpse of Pancho Villa''
168
5
Martin Luis Guzman
from Under the Fifth Sun
173
6
Earl Shorris
from A Mexican Ulysses
179
5
Jose Vasconcelos
from Another Mexico
184
4
Graham Greene
``Jacinto Trevino''
188
5
Los Pinguinos del Norte
Section 2
``Over the Border''
193
3
Cora Hayward Crawford
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
196
5
Maya Angelou
``Cloister''
201
7
Ricardo Aguilar-Melantzon
from The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
208
5
Oscar Zeta Acosta
from Blue Desert
213
10
Charles Bowden
Part 6
``On U.S./Mexico Relations''
223
3
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
``Crossing Over''
226
2
Demetria Martinez
``Surrender''
228
1
Maria Herrera-Sobek
``Poem for the Young White Man...''
229
2
Lorna Dee Cervantes
``Speaking of My Tongue''
231
1
Janet Arelis Quezada
``La Frontera''
232
1
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
``La Frontera''
233
2
Oscar J. Martinez
``The Desert Music''
235
11
William Carlos Williams
from Memory of Fire
246
9
Eduardo Galeano
Part 7
Section 1
from The Edge of the Storm
255
4
Agustin Yanez
from Border City
259
7
Hart Stilwell
from Bracero
266
8
Eugene Nelson
from In Search of Bernabe
274
6
Graciela Limon
``The Child''
280
11
Alberto Alvaro Rios
Section 2
``Mexicali, June 1954''
291
1
Allen Ginsberg
from Lonesome Traveler
292
1
Jack Kerouac
from The Mexican Night
293
2
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
``The Shop Keepers (or Long Live Tourism!)''
295
5
Oscar Monroy Rivera
``Denuncia!''
300
10
Gilberto Maldonado Herrera
``El Mordido''
310
3
Gilbert Shelton
Dave Sheridan
Part 8
``Corridista Vicente Macias''
313
2
John Ross
``Un mojado sin licencia / A Wetback without a License''
315
2
Flaco Jimenez
``El Deportado''
317
6
Los Hermanos Banuelos
``Deportee: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos''
323
2
Woody Guthrie
``Bracero''
325
1
Phil Ochs
``Across the Borderline''
326
2
Ry Cooder
John Hiatt
James Dickinson
``El Paso''
328
2
Marty Robbins
``What Money?''
330
1
``Lajitas and the NFL''
331
4
Sam Shepard
Credits
335
6
About the Contributors
341