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The borderlands of culture : Américo Paredes and the transnational imaginary
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- Creator
- Ramón Saldívar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006
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- Physical Details
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- x, 525 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822337768, 0822337762, 9780822337898, 0822337894
- OCLC
- ocm62330610
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-502) and index.
- "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
Subjects
- Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999.
- 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.