Trans-Americanity
Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2011
298 pages
978-0-8223-9454-9 (ISBN)
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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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Trans-Americanity
Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
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Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
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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.
Content
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
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
