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

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 525 pages) : illustrations, map Series New Americanists New Americanists. e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents 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 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 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-502) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999. SUBJECT Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999 fast Paredes, Américo 1915-1999 gnd Paredes, Américo. swd Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism Mexican American authors -- Biography Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism Transnationalism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. American literature American literature -- Mexican American authors Intellectual life Literature Mexican American authors Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life Transnationalism Grenzgebiet Hispanos Literatur Bellettrie. SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Mexiko USA Mexico. Hispanos. Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822387954 0822387956

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