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Autore |
Saldívar Ramón <1949-> |
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Titolo |
The Borderlands of Culture [[electronic resource] ] : Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (537 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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American literature - History and criticism - Mexican American authors - Mexican-American Border Region |
Mexican American authors - Biography |
Mexican Americans - Intellectual life |
American literature - History and criticism |
Transnationalism |
American Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: In Memoriam; Part I History and Remembrance as Social Aesthetics; 1 ''The Memory Is All That Matters''; 2 A Life in the Borderlands; Part II Fictions of the Transnational Imaginary; 3 The Checkerboard of Consciousness in George Washington Gómez; 4 Transnational Modernisms: Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the Four Freedoms; 5 Paredes and the Modernist Vernacular Intellectuals: George I. Sánchez 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 andthe Beans and Other Stories9 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; Conculsion: A Transsentimental Journey; |
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Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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