Saldívar / Ramon Saldivar / Pease The Borderlands of Culture

Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8795-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 536 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saldívar, Ramón

Ramon Saldivar, Saldivar

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: In Memoriam 3

Part I. History and Remembrance as Social Aesthetics

1. “The Memory Is All That Matters” 23

2. A Life in the Borderlands 64

Part II. Fictions of the Transnational Imaginary

3. The Checkerboard of Consciousness in George Washington Gómez 145

4. Transnational Modernisms: Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the Four Freedoms 190

5. Paredes and the Modernist Vernacular Intellectuals: George I. Sánchez and Emma Tenayuca 226

6. The Borders of Modernity 241

7. Bilingual Aesthetics and the Law of the Heart 264

8. Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories 289

9. Narrative and the Idioms of Race, Nation, and Identity 318

10. The Postwar Borderlands and the Origins of the Transnational Imaginary: The Occupation-Era Writings in Pacific Stars and Stripes and El Universal 344

11. The Shadow and the Imaginary Functioning of Institutions 395

Conclusion: A Transsentimental Journey 432

Notes 439

Works Cited 477

Index 503

Über Autor(innen)

Ramón Saldívar is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Department of English, and the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is the author of Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce and Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference.