The borderlands of culture
Subtitle: Américo Paredes and the transnational imaginary
By: Ramón Saldívar.
Series: New Americanists
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Paredes, Américo.; 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.; Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature.; Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The memory is all that matters"; title: A life in the borderlands; title: The checkerboard of consciousness in George Washington Gómez; title: Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms; title: Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sánchez  and  Emma Tenayuca; title: The borders of modernity; title: Bilingual aesthetics and the law of the heart; title: Border subjects and transnational sites : the hammon and the beans and other stories; title: Narrative and the idioms of race, nation, and identity; title: The postwar borderlands and the origins of the transnational  imaginary : the occupation-era writings in Pacific stars and stripes and El universal; title: The shadow and the imaginary functioning of institutions; title: A transsentimental journey.