Saldivar Jose David Saldivar

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Trans-Americanity (eBook, PDF)

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

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A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, Jose David Saldivar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "e;outernational"e; paradigm for American studies. Saldivar urges Americanists to adopt a world-system scale of analysis. "e;Americanity as a Concept,"e; an essay by the Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano and Immanuel Wallerstein, the architect of world-systems analysis, serves as a theoretical touchstone for Trans-Americanity. In conversation not only with Quijano and Wallerstein, but also with the theorists Gloria Anzaldua, John Beverley, Ranajit Guha, Walter D. Mignolo, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Saldivar explores questions of the subaltern and the coloniality of power, emphasizing their location within postcolonial studies. Analyzing the work of Jose Marti, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, and many other writers, he addresses concerns such as the "e;unspeakable"e; in subalternized African American, U.S. Latino and Latina, Cuban, and South Asian literature; the rhetorical form of postcolonial narratives; and constructions of subalternized identities. In Trans-Americanity, Saldivar demonstrates and makes the case for Americanist critique based on a globalized study of the Americas.

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JosÉ David SaldÍvar is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His books include Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, as well as The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History and Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology (co-edited with HÉctor CalderÓn), both also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394549
• Artikelnr.: 54920886