Border Matters : Remapping American Cultural Studies / José David Saldívar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saldívar, José David, author.

Series:

American crossroads ; Volume 1.

American Crossroads Series ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Mexican-American Border Region.

Popular culture.

Mexican American arts--Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican American arts.

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Biculturalism--Mexican-American Border Region.

Biculturalism.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexican-American Border Region--Civilization.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican-American Border Region--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 6 illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts--corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas. This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated. Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

INTRODUCTION

I. Cultural Theory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

2. Américo Paredes and Decolonization

3. Changing Borderland Subjectivities

4. The Production of Space by Arturo Islas and Carmen Lomas Garza

5. On the Bad Edge of La Frontera

6. Tijuana Calling

7. Remapping American Cultural Studies

AFTERWORD

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585091402

0585091404

9780520918368

0520918363

OCLC:

1149525949