The Borderlands of Culture

Author: Ramón Saldívar
Edition: annotated edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0822337894

The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (New Americanists)

Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, AmArico Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Download The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (New Americanists) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary history, the distinguished scholar RamAn SaldAvar establishes Paredes's preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south Texas borderlands. At the same time, SaldAvar reveals Paredes as a precursor to the "new" American cultural studies by showing how he perceptively nego Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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