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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.

Popular culture --- Mexican American arts --- American literature --- Biculturalism --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Multiculturalism --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Arts, Mexican American --- Ethnic arts --- History and criticism --- Mexican American authors --- Mexican American authors&delete& --- Mexican-American Border Region --- American-Mexican Border Region --- Border Region, American-Mexican --- Border Region, Mexican-American --- Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) --- Mexico-United States Border Region --- Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos --- United States-Mexico Border Region --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life. --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- History and criticism. --- aesthetics. --- american cultural studies. --- american nationalism. --- american popular culture. --- arturo islas. --- borderlands. --- carmen lomas garza. --- chicanas. --- chicano culture. --- chicanos. --- comparative intercultural studies. --- cultural studies. --- cultural theory. --- decolonialization. --- diaspora theory. --- ethnography. --- expression. --- hybrids culture. --- intellectual inquiry. --- la frontera. --- migration. --- national identity. --- representation. --- social context. --- social force. --- social space. --- sociology. --- transnational. --- travel writing. --- united states of america.