Identity at the Border: Narrative Strategies in María Novaro's El jardín del Edén and John Sayles's Lone Star

In María Novaro's El jardín del Edén and John Sayles's Lone Star , the narrative and visual art of film functions as ritual does: to make sense of the dangerous liminal space of the border. Novaro and Sayles both locate their protagonists' identity quests in the Mexico-U.S. borderl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amy Kaminsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2001-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol25/iss1/6