An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It includes studies of works from Americo Parades' With His Pistol in His Hand to more recent work by women like Sandra Cisneros and Cherrie Moraga.
An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It i...
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, AmErico Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. 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 RamOn SaldIvar establishes Paredes's preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south...
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, AmErico Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of ...
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, AmErico Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. 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 RamOn SaldIvar establishes Paredes's preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south...
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, AmErico Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of ...
The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading scholars in the field from the United States and Europe address the literary, social, and political dimensions of the imaginary, providing a methodological and theoretical groundwork for American studies scholarship in the transnational era and opening new arenas for conceptualizing formations of...
The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence ...
Novels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths of human existence are created and preserved. Professor Saldivar shows that deconstructive readings of novels remind us that we do not apprehend the world directly but through interpretive codes.
Originally published in 1984.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of...
Novels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths of human existence are created an...
