Transnational Borderlands Studies in the Mid-Twentieth Century. Review of Ramón Saldívar's <em> The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary</em> (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006)

Abstract

On the surface, The Borderlands of Culture is a study of Paredes’s life and literary writings. However, it is also a study of a place, the “borderlands,” understood, not only as the regions of South Texas and Greater Mexico, but also as a more abstract space, “not only the imaginary geopolitical boundary line between two nations but also the more functional one of symbolic overlap between cultural groups.”