What that pig said to Jesus : on the uneasy permanence of immigrant life

Summary: "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

Record details

OCLC: on1011094591
ISBN: 1607815508
ISBN: 1607815494
ISBN: 9781607815495
ISBN: 1607815508
ISBN: 9781607815501
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 172 pages)
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Published: Salt Lake City :The University of Utah Press,[2017]
Publisher: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Note:

"Excerpts and drafts of these essays have appeared in BorderSenses, Hinchas de Poesía, New Madrid, On Barcelona, and Southwest Review."

Contents:

Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Identity Theft -- 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 -- Part Two. 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 -- Part Three. What Emerges from the Husk -- Testimonio 11 -- Letter from Manastash Creek
Testimonio 12Casta -- Testimonio 13 -- Everyone Agrees -- Testimonio 14 -- Letter from Millpond Manor -- Testimonio 15