The borderlands of culture : Américo Paredes and the transnational imaginary 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