Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies - Couverture souple

Saldívar, José David David

 
9780520206823: Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520206827 ISBN 13 : 9780520206823
Editeur : University of California Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

José David Saldívar is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique and Literary History (1991).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520206827
ISBN 13 
9780520206823
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
268
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780520206816: Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520206819 ISBN 13 :  9780520206816
Editeur : University of California Press, 1997
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