The term Northern Border has split into multiple meanings and approaches, which are now impossible to cover; its metaphorical folds and layers have heightened ad infinitum, and without a doubt will continue to do so throughout this century. Regardless of the complexed concept of border and its synonyms, when I define the term by using the suffix “Northern”, I intend to state that the border that is circumscribed within this work is framed by a specific territory, though that does not limit its possible conceptual definitions and scopes that might exceed the “Northern border”. This book is in itself a field of exploration, a cartography of a nationalized area, that in addition to its geographical significance, provides a concrete meaning to the concept that certainly goes beyond the geographical. Cartography, as the most sought term by the essayists of this volume, is an archeology; it is, more importantly, a revelation process between the several texts and types of texts that compose this palimpsest. Participants: Humberto Félix Berumen, Diana Palaversich, Víctor Barrera Enderle, José Mario Martín, Joseba Buj, Daniuska Gonza´lez Gonza´lez, Urs Urban, Paul Quinn, Luis Garci´a-Torvisco, Virginia Frade Pandolfi, Marcelo Damonte, Vladimir Guerrero, Mónica Torres Torija, Ana María González Luna, Hugo Salcedo, Juan Luis Loza, Felipe Saavedra, Ainhoa Vásquez Mejías, Danilo Santos López e Ingrid Urgelles. VLADIMIR GUERRERO HEREDIA is a full-time tenure professor at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (Mexico) in the fields of Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, and Cultural and Aesthetics Criticism. He is a Fellow of the Directive Counsel at the Ibero-American Research Center of Germersheim-Leipzig (CIIAG-L) and Co-Director of the collection “Theory and Critic of Culture and Literature (TCCL, Olms Verlag) in Germany. Member and director of the Research Team “Literature and Culture in the North of Mexico” at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua; he is also a member of the “International Research Team on Violence” of the School of Humanities at Playa Ancha University, Valparaiso Chile. Member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI) Level I, granted by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). His research is focalized on the culture of Chihuahua and the north of Mexico; additionally, he specializes in studies on violence and drug related violence of the contemporary Mexico. MÓNICA TORRES TORIJA holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Literature at the Monterrey Institute of Technology. She has a Master’s degree in Higher Education by the Autonomous University of Chihuahua; holds a PhD in Cultural Studies at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon with a research focus on Geo-poetics in the cartographic narrative of Jesus Gardea. She has completed the Advance Course in Hispanic Philology (ICI-OFINES) in Madrid, and the CSIC in Malaga. She has been a full-time tenure professor at the School of Spanish Literature and the Graduate School of Humanities at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua for 28 years. FELIPE ARMANDO SAAVEDRA MONTOYA is a doctoral student in Modern Literature at the IBERO University in Santa Fe, Mexico City; he has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Literature and a Master’s degree in Higher Education by the Autonomous University of Chihuahua. He is a theater director, actor, playwright, and cultural promoter. His research fields are focused on social and political violence, theatrics and contemporary drama; also, full time tenure professor at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua. He has published the books “La cena de los dramaturgos” (A playwrights’ supper) in 2011, and “Máscara de Psique” (Mask for Psyche) in 2015. Member of the Research Team “Literature and Culture in the North of Mexico” at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, and of the “International Research Team on Violence” of the School of Humanities at Playa Ancha University, Valparaiso Chile.weiterlesen