For over 150 years, borderland authors from both Mexico and the United States have developed novels which owe their narrative power to compelling relationships

From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as "border crossing" and "hybridity" which suggest that a

Border Confluences examines how the theme of cultural difference influences the ways that writers construct narrative space and the ways their characters negoti

Focuses on the modern Mexican-American borderlands, where a boundary line seems to separate two dissimilar cultures and economies.

"The book explores how border subjects have been created and disputed in cultural narratives of the Texas-Mexico border, comparing and analyzing Mexican, Mexica