Saldívar / Jose David Saldivar / Pease Trans-Americanity

Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9454-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saldívar, José David

Jose David Saldivar, Saldivar

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Americanity Otherwise ix

Acknowledgments xxix

1. 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 1

2. Migratory Locations: Subaltern Modernity and José Martí's Trans-American Cultural Criticism 31

3. Looking Awry at the War of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo 57

4. In Search of the "Mexican Elvis": Border Matters, Americanity, and Post–State-centric Thinking 75

5. Making U.S. Democracy Surreal: Political Race, Transmodern Realism, and the Miner's Canary 90

6. The Outernational Origins of Chicano/a Literature: Paredes's Asian-Pacific Routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Américas Roots 123

7. Transnationalism Contested: On Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street and Caramelo or Puro Cuento 152

Appendix: On the Borderlands of U.S. Empire: The Limitations of Geography, Ideology, and Discipline 183

Notes 213

References 239

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

José David Saldívar is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His books include Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, as well as The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History and Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology (co-edited with Héctor Calderón), both also published by Duke University Press.