What that pig said to Jesus on the uneasy permanence of immigrant life / Philip Garrison.

Author/creator Garrison, Philip
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSalt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Descriptionxii, 172 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

Uniform titleEssays. Selections
Partial contents Life and times -- Testimonio 1 -- Before long, in a while -- Testimonio 2 -- Dear Tucker -- Testimonio 3 -- Aguas -- Testimonio 4 -- Somewhere nobody else wanted to live -- Testimonio 5 -- What you hear secondhand : Testimonio 6 -- Hearsay -- Testimonio 7 -- Anniversaries -- Testimonio 8 -- Uncle Lou versus the nineteenth century -- Testimonio 9 -- Fire and elephants -- Testimonio 10 -- What emerges from the husk : Testimonio 11 -- Letter from Manastash Creek -- Testimonio 12 -- Casta -- Testimonio 13 -- Everyone agrees -- Testimonio 14 -- Letter from Millpond Manor -- Testimonio 15 -- El chacuaco.
Abstract "Philip Garrison writes about two waves of the immigrant poor that have settled on the Columbia Plateau and throughout the American West. One, beginning in the 1930s and caricatured as Okies, encompassed hundreds of thousands of families from Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas and continued until about 1970. The second wave, since 1990, has come primarily from the Mexican Central Plateau, in even greater numbers. This book looks at immigration as "an identity makeover, one taking the form first of breakdown, then of reassembly, and finally of renewal""--Provided by publisher.
General note"Excerpts and drafts of these essays have appeared in BorderSenses, Hinchas de Poesía, New Madrid, On Barcelona, and Southwest Review."
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016040358
ISBN9781607815495 (softcover : alk. paper)

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