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)

Authors

  • Michael Hames-García University of Oregon

Keywords:

Latin American Cultural Studies, Literature

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.”

Author Biography

Michael Hames-García, University of Oregon

Michael Hames-García es Profesor Asociado y Director del Programa de Estudios Etnicos en la Universidad de Oregon. También está afiliado al Departamento de Inglés, y dirige el Centro de Estudios sobre Raza, Etnicidad, y Sexualidad (CRESS) en la misma universidad. Obtuvo su doctorado en la Universidad de Cornell en 1998 y fue profesor en la Universidad de Binghamton entre 1998 y 2004. Sus areas de interés incluyen la literatura y cultura chicanas, los estudios gay y lésbicos, y el estudio crítico de las prisiones. Es autor del libro Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice (U of Minnesota Press, 2004), y co-editor de Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (University of California Press, 2000) e Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave, 2006).

Published

2007-01-01

How to Cite

Hames-García, M. (2007). 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). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 4(2), 204–210. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/283

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Reviews / Reseñas