Border Matters (eBook)

Remapping American Cultural Studies

José David Saldívar (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
298 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91836-8 (ISBN)

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Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas.

This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated.

Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.


Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Tracking Borders

PART ONE COMPARATIVE INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

1. Cultural Theory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
2. Americo Paredes and Decolonization
3· Changing Borderland Subjectivities
4· The Production of Space by Arturo Islas
and Carmen Lomas Garza

PART TWO EL OTRO LADO I THE OTHER SIDE

5. On the Bad Edge of La Frontera
6. Tijuana Calling: Travel Writing, Autoethnography,
and Video Art
7· Remapping American Cultural Studies

Afterword: Frontejas to El Vez
Notes
References
Index

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • American Cultural Studies • american nationalism • American popular culture • Arturo Islas • Borderlands • carmen lomas garza • Chicanas • chicano culture • Chicanos • comparative intercultural studies • Cultural Studies • Cultural Theory • decolonialization • diaspora theory • ethnography • Expression • hybrids culture • intellectual inquiry • la Frontera • Migration • national identity • Representation • social context • Social Force • Social Space • Sociology • transnational • Travel writing • United States of America
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91836-3 / 0520918363
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91836-8 / 9780520918368