Landscape is the space of negotiation between human beings and the
physical world, and rarely are the negotiations more complex and
subtle than those conducted through the desert landscape along the
Mexico-U.S. border.
Patricia L. Price views the shaping of the landscape on and
around the border through various narratives that have sought to
establish claims to these dry lands. Most prominent are the
accounts of Anglo-American expansionism and Manifest Destiny
juxtaposed with the Chicano nationalist tale of Aztlan in the
twentieth century, all constituting collective, contending claims
to the U.S. Southwest. Demonstrating how stories can become
vehicles for reshaping places and identities, Price considers
characters old and new who inhabit the contemporary borderlands
between Mexico and the United States-ranging from longstanding
manifestations of good and evil in the figures of the Virgin of
Guadalupe and the Devil to a collection of lay saints embodying
current concerns.
Dry Place weaves together theoretical insights with field-based
inquiry, autobiography, and creative writing to arrive at a
textured understanding of the bordered landscape of late modern
subjectivity.
Patricia L. Price is associate professor of geography in the
Department of International Relations at Florida International
University in Miami.
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