BORDER PEDAGOGY FOR DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE
by Julie Bolt
A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the
GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM IN COMPARTIVE LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
In the Graduate College
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
STATEMENT BY AUTHOR.................................................................................................
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...................................................................................................
ABSTRACT...........................................................................................................................
PART I: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS.........................................
Introduction:.......................................................................................................................
Chapter 1:Historicizing Border Pedagogy As Democratic Practice.....................................
Chapter 2: Understanding Border Pedagogy As an Apparatus of Critical
Literacy and Emancipation Education..............................................................
Chapter 3: The Praxis of Border Pedagogy.......................................................................
PART II: LITERATURE THAT EXPLORES BORDER SPACES…………………...
Chapter 4: "Traitor Fictions”: Identification and Subversion through the
Works of Sherman Alexie, or “What Is an Indian?”......................................
Chapter 5: Towards an Active Utopia: Truth-making in Menchú, Stoll, and
the Classroom..............................................................................................
Chapter 6: Disruptures and Indeterminations: The Juxtaposition of Codifiers
in Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Border Art........................................................
PART III: COURSES THAT EXPLORE BORDER SPACES..........................................
Chapter 7: Straddling the Institution: American Indian Literature and
Critical Thinking............................................................................................
Chapter 8: Public Voices, Public Space: The Arts in Society...........................................
CONCLUSION: Border Thoughts……………………………………………………..
REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………………
