Border folk balladeers : critical studies on Américo Paredes / edited by Roberto Cantú.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cantú, Roberto, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999.

Paredes, Américo.

Mexican American authors--Texas.

Mexican American authors.

Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

Américo Paredes distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, folklorist, and as Professor of English and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Admired as one of the inspiring founders of Mexican American Studies in colleges and universities across the United States, Paredes' life-long interest in Mexican-American history and culture motivated him during his early years to collect corridos from farmers and villagers living on the Lower Rio Grande, resulting in his pioneering book ""With His Pistol in His Hand"": A Border Ballad and Its Hero (1958), and.

Contents:

Part One: Border Theory and the Legacy of Américo Paredes

Américo Paredes, Walter Prescott Webb, and the Antinomies of Theory

Américo Paredes and the Latin American Critical Tradition

Américo Paredes and the Work of Border Writing

Some Examples of Cultural Vindication and Integration in the Works of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Américo Paredes

Américo Paredes: Remembering the Man and His Legacy

Part Two: Borders, Bridges, and Conflicted Identities

Transitionality: The Border as Barrier and Bridge

Reworking Américo Paredes’ Notion of ‘Greater Mexico’

The Politics of Ethnography

Part Three: Border Narratives, Jokelore, and Corridos

Uncle Remus con Chile

Globalized Afterlives of the Border Corrido and the Corrido Hero

Contested Citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-1436-6

OCLC:

1046633947