TY - BOOK AU - Saldivar,Ramon ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The borderlands of culture: Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary T2 - New Americanists AV - PS3531.A525 Z88 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Paredes, Americo, KW - American literature KW - Mexican American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Biography KW - Mexican Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - Mexican-American Border Region KW - Transnationalism KW - In literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-502) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1169341 ER -