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Author:

Saldívar, Ramón.

Title:

The borderlands of culture : Américo Paredes and the transnational imaginary / Ramón Saldívar.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

x, 525 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Paredes, Américo.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Mexican American authors.--Biography.
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.

Notes:

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

Contents:

"The memory is all that matters" -- A life in the borderlands -- The checkerboard of consciousness in George Washington Gómez -- Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms -- Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sánchez and Emma Tenayuca -- The borders of modernity -- Bilingual aesthetics and the law of the heart -- Border subjects and transnational sites : The hammon and the beans and other stories -- Narrative and the idioms of race, nation, and identity -- The postwar borderlands and the origins of the transnational imaginary : the occupation-era writings in Pacific stars and stripes and El universal -- The shadow and the imaginary functioning of institutions -- A transsentimental journey.

Series:

New Americanists

ISBN:

9780822337768 (alk. paper)
0822337762 (alk. paper)
9780822337898 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822337894 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62330610

LCCN:

2005031720

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)