In this original look at how ethnic literature enters the U.S. classroom and the literary canon, Delia Poey compares the risks facing teachers and interpreters of well-known Latina/o or Latin American texts with those run by the "coyote" who smuggles undocumented workers across the U.S./Mexico border: both are in danger of erasing those cultural traits that made the border crossers important.
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Book Description
Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.
Llewelyn
Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot
dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the
money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more
men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the
carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss
and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction
hires an ex–Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a
mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to
spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and
across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what
one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his
life?
A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on
itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and
duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
Like Caesar’s Gaul, this book is divided into three parts, and like Caesar’s book (The Conquest of Gaul), it is about domains, border conflicts, and imperialism – in this case, the shifting border between psychology and neuroscience, and the possibility that psychology will be annexed by and incorporated in neuroscience. Is there a possibility that psychology will be reduced to or even replaced by neuroscience? That depends on what is meant by reduction in general (Part I), it depends on how theories in different sciences can be related (Part II), and it depends on empirical evidence (Part III). Thus, in this book, both the philosophical framework, the conceptual and metaphysical foundations, as well as the empirical evidence for such reductive claims are addressed.
