From the Four Professors’ Panel, each professor gave an interesting overview of the book from different perspectives and entertained questions and statements from the audience.
Michael Berberich: overview of the book, summary.
Steve Curley: Urrea’s background qualifies him as a voice of the border. He was raised Mexican in Tijuana and then American in San Diego by a Mexican father and an American mother. Urrea has said “the border runs down the middle of me. I have a barbed-wire fence neatly bisecting my heart.”
John Gorman: Analogies between the book and the classical model of the Journey Quest and its Hero—Took a survey that determined that very nearly everybody really liked the book and its characters—Discussed the possibility that the ending soft-pedaled the Lethalness of drug gangs when they’re crossed (acknowledging that deadly violence got its due elsewhere—in the Border section of the tale- Talked about the whole set of current attitudes toward illegal migrants and how attitudes have hardened and how the affection we feel for Nayeli and her crew is a counterweight to that angry bitterness.
Carol Bunch Davis: In many ways, Dr. Davis points out, this is a coming of age story in that Nayeli, Tacho, and the other young women walk away from their experiences with a more mature and realistic outlook on their lives and on life in the U.S., and the novel enables such discovery through the use of popular culture to enact introspection and self-awareness.
Michael Berberich: overview of the book, summary.
Steve Curley: Urrea’s background qualifies him as a voice of the border. He was raised Mexican in Tijuana and then American in San Diego by a Mexican father and an American mother. Urrea has said “the border runs down the middle of me. I have a barbed-wire fence neatly bisecting my heart.”
John Gorman: Analogies between the book and the classical model of the Journey Quest and its Hero—Took a survey that determined that very nearly everybody really liked the book and its characters—Discussed the possibility that the ending soft-pedaled the Lethalness of drug gangs when they’re crossed (acknowledging that deadly violence got its due elsewhere—in the Border section of the tale- Talked about the whole set of current attitudes toward illegal migrants and how attitudes have hardened and how the affection we feel for Nayeli and her crew is a counterweight to that angry bitterness.
Carol Bunch Davis: In many ways, Dr. Davis points out, this is a coming of age story in that Nayeli, Tacho, and the other young women walk away from their experiences with a more mature and realistic outlook on their lives and on life in the U.S., and the novel enables such discovery through the use of popular culture to enact introspection and self-awareness.
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