1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972640903321

Autore

Saldivar Ramon

Titolo

The borderlands of culture : Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary / / Ramon Saldivar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006

ISBN

9780822387954

0822387956

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (537 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism

Mexican American authors

Mexican Americans - Intellectual life

American literature - Mexican-American Border Region - History and criticism

Transnationalism

Mexican-American Border Region In literature

Mexican-American Border Region Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-502) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : In memoriam -- ; pt. 1. History and remembrance as social aesthetics -- ; 1. "The memory is all that matters" -- ; 2. A life in the borderlands -- ; pt. 2. Fictions of the transnational imaginary -- ; 3. The checkerboard of consciousness in George Washington Gomez -- ; 4. Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms -- ; 5. Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sanchez 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 and the beans and other stories -- ; 9. 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 -- Conclusion : A transsentimental journey -- Notes -- Works cited --



Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.