Borderlands of Culture - Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor Ramón Saldívar Klappentext The definitive life and work of Americo Paredes, the native South Texan poet, novelist, journalist, folklorist, ethnographer and first U.S. theorist of the border. Zusammenfassung Poet! novelist! journalist! and ethnographer! Americo Paredes (1915-1995) was a pioneering figure in Mexican-American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. This book establishes Paredes' pre-eminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the American southwestern borderlands. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: In Memoriam 3 Part I. History and Remembrance as Social Aesthetics 1. “The Memory Is All That Matters” 23 2. A Life in the Borderlands 64 Part II. Fictions of the Transnational Imaginary 3. The Checkerboard of Consciousness in George Washington Gómez 145 4. Transnational Modernisms: Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the Four Freedoms 190 5. Paredes and the Modernist Vernacular Intellectuals: George I. Sánchez and Emma Tenayuca 226 6. The Borders of Modernity 241 7. Bilingual Aesthetics and the Law of the Heart 264 8. Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories 289 9. Narrative and the Idioms of Race, Nation, and Identity 318 10. The Postwar Borderlands and the Origins of the Transnational Imaginary: The Occupation-Era Writings in Pacific Stars and Stripes and El Universal 344 11. The Shadow and the Imaginary Functioning of Institutions 395 Conclusion: A Transsentimental Journey 432 Notes 439 Works Cited 477 Index 503

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• Authors: Ramon Saldivar, Saldivar, Ramon Saldivar, Ramón Saldívar
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2006
• EAN: 9780822337768
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3776-8
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Anthropologie, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Mexiko, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA