| Description |
x, 525 p. : ill., map. |
| Series |
New Americanists |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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New Americanists.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-502) and index. |
| Contents |
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 Gomez -- 4. Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms -- 5. Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sanchez 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Paredes, Americo, 1915-1999.
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American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.
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Mexican American authors -- Biography.
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Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life.
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American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism.
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Transnationalism.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780822387954 |
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0822387956 |
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0822337894 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0822337762 (alk. paper) |
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9780822337768 (alk. paper) |
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9780822337898 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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