The stories of Rosario Sanmiguel from Tijuana describe everyday life on the border, the pressure of the omnipresent neighbour, the USA, and the resulting crisis of identity.
Cristina Rivera-Garza, writer, poet and historian, plays with the symbolic borders between the sexes in her sophisticated, emotion-suffused texts. She captures situations which reflect fragments of Mexican life both inside and outside the border region.Moderator: Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle, Ibero-American Institute, Berlin Focus Mexico: Border Crossers The “border issue” is specifically Mexican, yet universal: Mexico as a whole represents the border between North and South, between the “Third” world and the “First”. The epitome of this border is the “Linea” between Mexico and the USA. It is chiefly the young authors who grapple with the issue of the border, from political, cultural and gender-specific perspectives. In turn, Mexican-American writers regard the border as a metaphor for their own transnationality. Thus – in the words of Néstor García Canclini – the border becomes a “laboratory of post-modernism”. Curator: Manuel Valenzuela, cultural scholar and one of the most prominent experts on the issue of the border at the “Colegio de la Frontera Norte” in Tijuana, Mexico
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