{"product_id":"the-new-world-border-guillermo-g-mez-pea-9780872863132","title":"The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New World Border\u003c\/em\u003e is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cultures and a head-on collision with the real and imagined borders that separate North and South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHero of a thousand syncretic faces--intercultural interpreter, reverse anthropologist, experimental linguist and political artist of the first order--Guillermo Gez-Pe has won international acclaim for his efforts to create a hybrid culture and to articulate a borderless ethos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new collection of essays, poems and performance texts, Gez-Pe muses, often tongue-in-cheek, on matters of race, nationality, language and identity. With a heady mix of pop culture, provocative iconography, political satire, ethnic stereotypes and guerrilla theory, he explores \"the territory of cultural misunderstanding.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In everything he does, he remains an indomitably playful phrasemaker; a fertile rethinker of cultural contradictions, clich駸, and conundrums; and an inspiring recruiter for a playground army of cultural pluralists.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gez-Pe invites the reader into uncharted territory: the vast, intercontinental border zone where people live between and across cultures and countries, creating a thoroughly hybrid society where the only cultural \"others\" are those who stubbornly resist \"mestizaje\". \u003cem\u003eThe New World Border\u003c\/em\u003e is both wildly entertaining and thoughtfully incisive, inducing a kind of cultural vertigo that erases the borders between 'us' and 'them'. \u003cem\u003eThe New World Border\u003c\/em\u003e is a required addition to all literary and multicultural studies collections!\"--\u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Guillermo Gez Pe is a clear example of the work that originates from and about the border. His work deals with borders, with their existence, construction, reconstruction, definition, and eventual questioning. In this context, the aim of this essay is to explore the way the artist puts into practice his conceptualization of the border reality in The New World Border: Prophecies for the End of the Century, which toured worldwide and in front of very diverse, international audiences.\"--Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Contemporary Drama in English\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guillermo Gez-Pe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872863131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872863132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1996 pg. 73","brand":"Guillermo Gez-Pe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055661543679,"sku":"9780872863132","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a04e7890-8c7c-488a-8b8f-06ca539741e6.jpg?v=1685037056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-world-border-guillermo-g-mez-pea-9780872863132","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}