The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by R

Description: The Borderlands of Culture by Ramón Saldívar Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Americo Paredes (1915-1995) was a pioneering figure in Mexican-American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. This book establishes Paredes pre-eminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the American southwestern borderlands. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915–1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary history, the distinguished scholar Ramón Saldívar establishes Paredess preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south Texas borderlands. At the same time, Saldívar reveals Paredes as a precursor to the "new" American cultural studies by showing how he perceptively negotiated the contradictions between the national and transnational forces at work in the Americas in the nascent era of globalization.Saldívar demonstrates how Paredess poetry, prose, and journalism prefigured his later work as a folklorist and ethnographer. In song, story, and poetry, Paredes first developed the themes and issues that would be central to his celebrated later work on the "border studies" or "anthropology of the borderlands." Saldívar describes how Paredess experiences as an American soldier, journalist, and humanitarian aid worker in Asia shaped his understanding of the relations between Anglos and Mexicans in the borderlands of south Texas and of national and ethnic identities more broadly. Saldívar was a friend of Paredes, and part of The Borderlands of Culture is told in Paredess own words. By explaining how Paredess work engaged with issues central to contemporary scholarship, Saldívar extends Paredess intellectual project and shows how it contributes to the remapping of the field of American studies from a transnational perspective. Notes A literary history that establishes the preeminent place of Americo Paredes (1915-1995) in writing the contested cultural history of the American southwestern borderlands Back Cover "A major work of literary and cultural criticism,TheBorderlands of Cultureweaves together an insightful and thorough study of Am Author Biography Ramón Saldívar is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Department of English, and the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is the author of Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce and Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: In Memoriam 3Part I. History and Remembrance as Social Aesthetics 1. "The Memory Is All That Matters" 232. A Life in the Borderlands 64Part II. Fictions of the Transnational Imaginary 3. The Checkerboard of Consciousness in George Washington Gómez 1454. Transnational Modernisms: Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the Four Freedoms 1905. Paredes and the Modernist Vernacular Intellectuals: George I. Sánchez and Emma Tenayuca 2266. The Borders of Modernity 2417. Bilingual Aesthetics and the Law of the Heart 2648. Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories 2899. Narrative and the Idioms of Race, Nation, and Identity 31810. The Postwar Borderlands and the Origins of the Transnational Imaginary: The Occupation-Era Writings in Pacific Stars and Stripes and El Universal 34411. The Shadow and the Imaginary Functioning of Institutions 395Conclusion: A Transsentimental Journey 432Notes 439Works Cited 477Index 503 Review "A major work of literary and cultural criticism, The Borderlands of Culture weaves together an insightful and thorough study of Americo Paredess career with sustained reflections on the larger lessons and contemporary contexts of his writing. This is an original, wide-ranging, and provocative piece of scholarship by one of the professions leading scholars of transnational literature."--Gustavo Perez Firmat, Columbia University "This is a magnificent book. Ramon Saldivar situates Americo Paredes as the founder of an aesthetic and an epistemology for the world at large by those who dwell in the borders--not just the borders between Mexico and the United States but the borders of Western imperialisms. His years of research, personal acquaintance with Paredes, and passionate scholarship have produced a work of lasting value and one that will no doubt become a canonical volume of Latino/a scholarship."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of Local Histories/Global Designs Promotional A literary history that establishes the preeminent place of Americo Paredes (1915-1995) in writing the contested cultural history of the American southwestern borderlands Long Description Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Americo Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary history, the distinguished scholar Ramon Saldivar establishes Paredess preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south Texas borderlands. At the same time, Saldivar reveals Paredes as a precursor to the "new" American cultural studies by showing how he perceptively negotiated the contradictions between the national and transnational forces at work in the Americas in the nascent era of globalization. Saldivar demonstrates how Paredess poetry, prose, and journalism prefigured his later work as a folklorist and ethnographer. In song, story, and poetry, Paredes first developed the themes and issues that would be central to his celebrated later work on the "border studies" or "anthropology of the borderlands." Saldivar describes how Paredess experiences as an American soldier, journalist, and humanitarian aid worker in Asia shaped his understanding of the relations between Anglos and Mexicans in the borderlands of south Texas and of national and ethnic identities more broadly. Saldivar was a friend of Paredes, and part of "The" "Borderlands of Culture" is told in Paredess own words. By explaining how Paredess work engaged with issues central to contemporary scholarship, Saldivar extends Paredess intellectual projectand shows how it contributes to the remapping of the field of American studies from a transnational perspective. Review Quote "This is a magnificent book. Ram n Sald var situates Am rico Paredes as the founder of an aesthetic and an epistemology for the world at large by those who dwell in the borders-not just the borders between Mexico and the United States but the borders of Western imperialisms. His years of research, personal acquaintance with Paredes, and passionate scholarship have produced a work of lasting value and one that will no doubt become a canonical volume of Latino/a scholarship."-Walter D. Mignolo, author of Local Histories/Global Designs Promotional "Headline" A literary history that establishes the preeminent place of Amrico Paredes (1915-1995) in writing the contested cultural history of the American southwestern borderlands Details ISBN0822337894 Short Title BORDERLANDS OF CULTURE Publisher Duke University Press Series New Americanists Language English ISBN-10 0822337894 ISBN-13 9780822337898 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2006 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edition annotated edition DOI 10.1604/9780822337898 UK Release Date 2006-04-04 AU Release Date 2006-04-04 NZ Release Date 2006-04-04 US Release Date 2006-04-04 Author Ramón Saldívar Pages 536 Publication Date 2006-04-04 DEWEY 305.800973 Illustrations 33 b&w photos, 1 map Audience Professional & Vocational Subtitle Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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