The borderlands of culture : Américo Paredes and the transnational imaginary /
The definitive life and work of Americo Paredes, the native South Texan poet, novelist, journalist, folklorist, ethnographer and first U.S. theorist of the border.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | New Americanists.
e-Duke books scholarly collection. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : In memoriam
- pt. 1. History and remembrance as social aesthetics
- 1. "The memory is all that matters"
- 2. A life in the borderlands
- pt. 2. Fictions of the transnational imaginary
- 3. The checkerboard of consciousness in George Washington Gómez
- 4. Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms
- 5. Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sánchez and Emma Tenayuca
- 6. The borders of modernity
- 7. Bilingual aesthetics and the law of the heart
- 8. Border subjects and transnational sites : The hammon and the beans and other stories
- 9. Narrative and the idioms of race, nation, and identity
- 10. The postwar borderlands and the origins of the transnational imaginary : the occupation-era writings in Pacific stars and stripes and El universal
- 11. The shadow and the imaginary functioning of institutions
- Conclusion : A transsentimental journey
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.