Dreams deferred : the concept of the US-Mexican borderlands between the global North and the South

Jelena Šesnić

Jelena Šesnić is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (Croatia). She teaches courses in US-American literature and culture, while her research encompasses more recent methodologies in American studies, feminist and gender theory, and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature (2007) and, in Croatian, Mračne žene. Prikazi ženstva u američkoj književnosti, 1820-1860 (Dark Ladies: Figures of Femininity in American Literature, 1820-1860 [2010]), and has edited a collection of essays, Siting America/Sighting Modernity (2010). Email: jsesnic@ffzg.hr