Trans-Americanity
Subtitle: subaltern modernities, global coloniality, and the cultures of greater Mexico
By: José David Saldívar
Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780822350644; 9780822350835
Subjects: Interdisciplinary research; Civilization; Study and teaching (Higher); Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unsettling race, coloniality, and caste in Anzaldúa's borderlands/la frontera, Martínez's parrot in the oven, and Roy's the god of small things; title: Migratory locations: subaltern modernity and José Martís trans-American cultural criticism; title: Looking awry at the war of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo; title: In search of the "Mexican Elvis" : border matters, Americanity, and post state-centric thinking; title: Making US democracy surreal: political race, transmodern realism, and the miner's canary; title: The outernational origins of Chicano/a literature: Paredes's Asian-Pacific routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Américas roots; title: Transnationalism contested: on Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango street and caramelo or puro cuento; title: Appendix. on the borderlands of U.S. empire: the limitations of geography, ideology, and discipline.