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Autore |
Saldivar Ramon |
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Titolo |
The borderlands of culture : Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary / / Ramon Saldivar |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (537 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-502) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 -- |
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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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