The first critical study in English of Northern Mexican border fiction from a Mexican point of view. Border Texts studies... More > the relationship between the Mexico-U.S. border and some of the fiction produced in the area. Latin Americanist Núria Vilanova has devoted much of her research to the Mexico-U.S. border from a cultural and literary perspective. She completing her Ph.D. at Liverpool University (1993)..

"Vilanova’s Border Texts is a rich and multifaceted study that blends literary and cultural studies, economics, history, and the sociology of immigration studies. This complex and highly readable study opens a terrain to understand how Mexican based border writers, theorists, and cultural producers articulate the ever growing discourse of those on the Otro Lado (the other side) of the U.S line of empire and provides a rich and compelling side of border cultures from South to El Norte, rather than its reverse."

Arturo Aldama, Ethnic Studies | The University of Colorado < Less

Thomas Paine, a revolutionist in three countries, helped shape the emerging liberal democratic world of the late 18th... More > Century. His writings continue to merit our attention because of the depth of his political philosophical, economic, and religious vision. This volume emerged from a conference held at San Diego State University in October 2005. Discussion focused on Paine’s historical importance and his contemporary legacy, on the relevance of his social analysis and his role as a symbol for those dedicated to progressive reform. Paine’s American homeland has been transformed in a manner he most likely would not have endorsed. Yet his voice remains resonant, as a reminder of what this country might have been and has the potential to become. < Less

The 2011 edition of pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual edited by Lindsey Messner with undergraduates and... More > graduate students from SDSU and published by San Diego State University Press; contributors include: Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Doug Cox, Jason Joyce, Paul David, Paris Brown, Shane Roeschlein, Joshua Gage, Vivekanand Jha, Alan Britt, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, Kristin Berkey-Abbott, Frank Scozzari, Deepak Chaswal, Ken Poyner, James B. Nicola, Eric Barnes, M. Kaat Toy, Janice Pisello, Roger Camp, Kent Cooper, Scott McFarland, Guy J. Jackson, Stephen Lackaye, Catherine McGuire, Darren Fernando, Kelly Talbot, Carroll Susco, and Christopher Mulrooney. < Less

THE HURT BUSINESS: OLIVER MAYER'S EARLY WORKS [+] PLUS edited by William A. Nericcio

This special, all-color edition of THE... More > HURT BUSINESS contains the full scripts from Oliver Mayer's plays YOUNG VALIANT, BLADE TO THE HEAT and JOY OF THE DESOLATE; it also includes interviews with Mayer, critical analyses, photographs, and other textual surprises. Mayer did his undergraduate work at Worcester College, Oxford and Cornell University, where he graduated--his MFA was completed at Columbia University. Mayer, whose literary papers are archived at the Stanford University Libraries, was voted one of the nation's "100 Coolest" people by BUZZ Magazine in the late 90s, and, having survived this brush with fame and fortune, his work continues to grow and evolve positioning him as one of the more singular theatrical voices in the American arts scene. Hyperbole Books, an imprint of SDSU Press, is thrilled to showcase his early works in this handsome edition. Oliver Mayer presently teaches Theatre at USC. < Less

The 2010 edition of pacificREVIEW is now available.

Edited by Joseph Robinson Borland and Lindsey Messner and designed by... More > Guillermo Nericcio García, it features work by:

Shari Wyly
Don Thompson
John F. Buckley
Tara Mantel
Joshua Ware
Philip Kobylarz
Lyzette Wanzer
Toni L. Wilkes
Jeffrey C. Alfier
Kelly Talbot
Adam Lilienthal
Marina Blokker
Catherine McGuire
Darrel Epp
Sam J. Miller
Francine Witte
Don Thompson
Stephen Gutierrez
Bruce Lader
2SickBastards
Eric C. Lyden
Daniel Austin Warren
Leon Lanzbom
Helene Constant
Kristina Cazares
& Brook Barman < Less

pacificREVIEW 2004 ~ 2005
by Leon Lanzbom and Estela Eaton, editors
Genre: Literature: Poetry, Fiction, Photography, Art;... More > Paperback: 116 pages

The 2004 edition from the west coast arts review annual @ literature.sdsu.edu

Synopsis:

Poetry, fiction and art by Sandra Hunter, Rebecca Loudon, Karen Embry, R.T. Castleberry, Eric Gabriel Lehman, Colette LaBouff Atkinson, Maggie Jaffe, Luis Alberto Urrea, Guillermo Nericcio García, Estela Eaton, Camille Tallon & others. < Less

The latest and greatest collection of art, poetry, fiction, and essays from graduate students and undergraduates at San... More > Diego State University's Department of English and Comparative Literature. < Less

The NOSTALGIA issue of pacific REVIEW--the West Coast Arts Review Annual published by undergraduates at San Diego State... More > University's Department of English and Comparative Literature < Less

The 2005-2006 issue of Pacific Review--the West Coast Arts Review Annual

A collection of the early works by Oliver Mayer, a Los Angeles playwright and assistant professor at USC. The volume also... More > contains interviews, profiles, critical essays and background materials covering the course of Mayer's career and includes writing by Caridad Svich, Jorge Huerta, Tommy Thompson, William Anthony Nericcio, Howard Stein and others. < Less