Thirteen essays, presented by Egan (Spanish, U. of California at Davis) and Long (Spanish, U. of Colorado at Boulder), explore Mexican perceptions of the United States from 1920 to the present
in a broad variety of texts. Topics include the US through the eyes of traveling Mexican artists and writers from 1920 to 1940; the views of the United States expressed in the poems and essays
of Salvador Novo; Emilio Fern獺ndez's filmic adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Pearl; political adaptations and cultural translations in the Mexican gay liberation movement; perspectives of the
United States in the writings of Jos矇 Agust穩n, Carlos Fuentes, and Ricardo Aguilar Melantz籀n; cultural hybridity in Xavier Velasco's Diablo Guardi獺n; cultural identity and political cartoons in
cyberspace; and Mexican scholarly responses to Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" thesis. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
