José David Saldívar

Trans-Americanity

Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350835
• ISBN-10: 0822350831
• Artikelnr.: 34163158

Autorenporträt

José David Saldívar

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Americanity Otherwise ix
Acknowledgments xxix
1. 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
1
2. Migratory Locations: Subaltern Modernity and José Martí's Trans-American
Cultural Criticism 31
3. Looking Awry at the War of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet
and Esteban Montejo 57
4. In Search of the "Mexican Elvis": Border Matters, Americanity, and
Post-State-centric Thinking 75
5. Making U.S. Democracy Surreal: Political Race, Transmodern Realism, and
the Miner's Canary 90
6. The Outernational Origins of Chicano/a Literature: Paredes's
Asian-Pacific Routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Américas Roots 123
7. Transnationalism Contested: On Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango
Street and Caramelo or Puro Cuento 152
Appendix: On the Borderlands of U.S. Empire: The Limitations of Geography,
Ideology, and Discipline 183
Notes 213
References 239
Index 257