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The borderlands of culture : Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary / Ramon Saldivar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saldívar, Ramón.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999.
- Paredes, Américo.
- American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Mexican American authors--Biography.
- Mexican American authors.
- Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
- Mexican Americans.
- American literature--Mexican-American Border Region--History and criticism.
- Transnationalism.
- Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (537 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : In memoriam
- pt. 1. History and remembrance as social aesthetics
- 1. "The memory is all that matters"
- 2. A life in the borderlands
- pt. 2. Fictions of the transnational imaginary
- 3. The checkerboard of consciousness in George Washington Gomez
- 4. Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms
- 5. Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sanchez and Emma Tenayuca
- 6. The borders of modernity
- 7. Bilingual aesthetics and the law of the heart
- 8. Border subjects and transnational sites : The hammon and the beans and other stories
- 9. Narrative and the idioms of race, nation, and identity
- 10. The postwar borderlands and the origins of the transnational imaginary : the occupation-era writings in Pacific stars and stripes and El universal
- 11. The shadow and the imaginary functioning of institutions
- Conclusion : A transsentimental journey
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-502) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822387954
- 0822387956
- OCLC:
- 220950734
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