TY - BOOK ID - 78344313 TI - Border Matters : Remapping American Cultural Studies PY - 1997 SN - 0585091404 0520918363 9780520918368 9780585091402 0520206819 0520206827 PB - Berkeley, California : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Popular culture KW - Mexican American arts KW - American literature KW - Biculturalism KW - Mexican Americans in literature KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - United States Local History KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Multiculturalism KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Arts, Mexican American KW - Ethnic arts KW - History and criticism KW - Mexican American authors KW - Mexican American authors&delete& KW - Mexican-American Border Region KW - American-Mexican Border Region KW - Border Region, American-Mexican KW - Border Region, Mexican-American KW - Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) KW - Mexico-United States Border Region KW - Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos KW - United States-Mexico Border Region KW - Civilization. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Mexican Americans in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - aesthetics. KW - american cultural studies. KW - american nationalism. KW - american popular culture. KW - arturo islas. KW - borderlands. KW - carmen lomas garza. KW - chicanas. KW - chicano culture. KW - chicanos. KW - comparative intercultural studies. KW - cultural studies. KW - cultural theory. KW - decolonialization. KW - diaspora theory. KW - ethnography. KW - expression. KW - hybrids culture. KW - intellectual inquiry. KW - la frontera. KW - migration. KW - national identity. KW - representation. KW - social context. KW - social force. KW - social space. KW - sociology. KW - transnational. KW - travel writing. KW - united states of america. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78344313 AB - 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. ER -