Trans-Americanity : subaltern modernities, global coloniality, and the cultures of greater Mexico / José David Saldívar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saldívar, José David.

Series:

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interdisciplinary research.

America--Study and teaching (Higher).

America.

America--Civilization.

America--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Saldívar is one of the founders of border studies and one of the most respected senior scholars in American Studies. In this work he introduces the term trans-Americanity as a frame for thinking more hemispherically within a global, world-systems frame.

Contents:

Unsettling race, coloniality, and caste in Anzaldúa's borderlands/la frontera, Martínez's parrot in the oven, and Roy's the god of small things

Migratory locations: subaltern modernity and José Martís trans-American cultural criticism

Looking awry at the war of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo

In search of the "Mexican Elvis" : border matters, Americanity, and post state-centric thinking

Making US democracy surreal: political race, transmodern realism, and the miner's canary

The outernational origins of Chicano/a literature: Paredes's Asian-Pacific routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Américas roots

Transnationalism contested: on Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango street and caramelo or puro cuento

Appendix. on the borderlands of U.S. empire: the limitations of geography, ideology, and discipline.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9786613409133

9781283409131

1283409135

9780822394549

0822394545

OCLC:

772593032