The Borderlands of Culture by Ramn Saldvar
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.
“A major work of literary and cultural criticism, The Borderlands of Culture weaves together an insightful and thorough study of Américo Paredes’s career with sustained reflections on the larger lessons and contemporary contexts of his writingThis is an original, wide-ranging, and provocative piece of scholarship by one of the profession’s leading scholars of transnational literature.”—Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University
“This is a magnificent book. Ramón Saldívar situates Américo 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
“Beautifully crafted, thoroughly researched, and well documented, this is a remarkable and important book that will no doubt become a landmark volume in the fields of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, English, Chicano Studies, Folkloristics, Borderland Studies, and Transnational Studies. The reader can look forward to learning a great deal about Américo Paredes, the man, the artist, the writer, and scholar. Saldívar deserves much praise for this extraordinarily nuanced and comprehensive study.” -- Olga Nájera-Ramírez * Journal of Folklore Research *
“Saldívar provides a comprehensive study. . . . For historians, this book offers splendid insights into the intellectual formation of one of the finest scholars and interpreters of the borderlands experience. Saldívar provides many sophisticated and thought-provoking critiques of Paredes’ early work in fiction and journalism. . . . [I]ts clear organization and prose make this expansive work accessible and informative. However, it is the inclusion of Paredes’ own narrative of his life and the many excerpts from his body of work that, above all, make this compelling and informative reading.” -- James Starling * EIAL *
“Saldívar’s work is of great value to scholars because it combines rigorous and insightful textual analysis with considerations of political and historical context in order to advance theoretical conclusions about memory, writing and identity whose relevance extends far beyond the borders of this particular study.” -- Ryan F. Long * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
“This is a magnificent book. Ramón Saldívar situates Américo 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
“Beautifully crafted, thoroughly researched, and well documented, this is a remarkable and important book that will no doubt become a landmark volume in the fields of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, English, Chicano Studies, Folkloristics, Borderland Studies, and Transnational Studies. The reader can look forward to learning a great deal about Américo Paredes, the man, the artist, the writer, and scholar. Saldívar deserves much praise for this extraordinarily nuanced and comprehensive study.” -- Olga Nájera-Ramírez * Journal of Folklore Research *
“Saldívar provides a comprehensive study. . . . For historians, this book offers splendid insights into the intellectual formation of one of the finest scholars and interpreters of the borderlands experience. Saldívar provides many sophisticated and thought-provoking critiques of Paredes’ early work in fiction and journalism. . . . [I]ts clear organization and prose make this expansive work accessible and informative. However, it is the inclusion of Paredes’ own narrative of his life and the many excerpts from his body of work that, above all, make this compelling and informative reading.” -- James Starling * EIAL *
“Saldívar’s work is of great value to scholars because it combines rigorous and insightful textual analysis with considerations of political and historical context in order to advance theoretical conclusions about memory, writing and identity whose relevance extends far beyond the borders of this particular study.” -- Ryan F. Long * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822337898 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822337894 |
| Title | The Borderlands of Culture |
| Author | Ramón Saldívar |
| Series | New Americanists |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press Books |
| Year published | 2006-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 536 |
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