Trans-Americanity : Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico /

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Saldívar is one of the founders of border studies and one of the most respected senior scholars in American Studies. In this work he introduces the term trans-Americanity as a frame for thinking more hemispherically within a global, world-systems frame.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Saldívar, Jose David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Research.
Interdisciplinary research.
Civilization.
Education, Higher.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
HISTORY > North America.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Recherche interdisciplinaire.
America.
Amerique > Recherche.
Amerique > Civilisation.
America > Research.
America > Civilization.
America > Study and teaching (Higher)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Migratory locations: subaltern modernity and Jose Martís trans-American cultural criticism
  • Looking awry at the war of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo
  • In search of the "Mexican Elvis" : border matters, Americanity, and post state-centric thinking
  • Making US democracy surreal: political race, transmodern realism, and the miner's canary
  • The outernational origins of Chicano/a literature: Paredes's Asian-Pacific routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Americas roots
  • Transnationalism contested: on Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango street and caramelo or puro cuento
  • Appendix. on the borderlands of U.S. empire: the limitations of geography, ideology, and discipline.

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