The borderlands of culture : Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary / / Ramon Saldivar
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (537 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexican-American Border Region In literature |
| Mexican-American Border Region Intellectual life | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The borderlands of culture |
| ISBN: | 9780822387954 |
| 0822387956 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910972640903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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