{"product_id":"wild-tongue-jonathan-leal-9781478039266","title":"Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWild Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e, writer, scholar, and musician Jonathan Leal invites readers to the Texas borderlands to witness contemporary sonic cultures and expressive forms of Latine struggle and world-making. Blending autoethnography, music criticism, and border theory into an epistolary mixtape, Leal depicts the borderlands as a generative place made by its inhabitants, a geography where creativity and cultural performance engage powerfully with politico-aesthetic issues, create communal identity, and challenge xenophobic and nationalist dominance. Across the mixtape's contrasting \"tracks,\" Leal situates living artistries within longer, local arcs of borderlands creativity, amplifying Gloria Anzaldúa's durable, pathbreaking observation, \"Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.\" Combining lyric nonfiction, artist interviews, archival research, transdisciplinary analysis, and popular music criticism and production, \u003ci\u003eWild Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e presents an exhilarating, embracing account of freedoms pursued between worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Leal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478039264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478039266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Jonathan Leal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871380812031,"sku":"9781478039266","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-tongue-jonathan-leal-9781478039266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}