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Tijuana Transa: Transa as Metaphor and Theory on the US–Mexico Border
2016
Journal of Transnational American Studies
This essay explores the varied potential of "transa" as a new metaphor to describe the US–Mexico borderlands in the twenty-first century and the formal transactions used in the photo-textual essay Here Is Tijuana! (2006). Reimer identifies certain "transa techniques" in the book that connect reader-viewers to a practice of reading-viewing (both text and city) that contests North American and Mexican stereotypes depicting Tijuana (and the borderlands writ large) as a city of vice, illegality,
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