{"product_id":"transamericanity-9780822350835","title":"TransAmericanity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaldívar is one of the founders of border studies and one of the most respected senior scholars in American Studies. In this work he introduces the term trans-Americanity as a frame for thinking more hemispherically within a global, world-systems frame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTrans-Americanity\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent, visionary book. I cannot think of another scholar working today who has helped to instantiate new fields and new lines of inquiry in the manner of José David Saldívar. He is an unusually generous and curious scholar, one who is perfectly willing to rethink earlier assumptions, appreciate the insights of his critics, and read broadly across disciplines. These strengths contribute to what I believe will be an extremely influential text, one that will be widely taught and carefully reviewed.\"—\u003cb\u003eMary Pat Brady\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eExtinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Intent on discerning the common concerns of subaltern studies, global coloniality, and transmodernity, José David Saldívar examines persistent motifs and literary themes in the imaginative literature of Greater Mexico and South Asia. Individually and collectively, the minoritized writings that he discusses articulate new epistemological grounds for critiquing a transmodern world governed by global capitalism and new forms of coloniality. Saldívar advocates an 'Americanity' that opens up the idea of America to contexts well beyond the United States, Latin America, and the Western Hemisphere.\"—\u003cb\u003eDonald E. Pease\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New American Exceptionalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Saldívar is one of the boldest and most important scholars in American Studies today. Like few others, he engages what Martí calls \u003ci\u003eNuestra América\u003c\/i\u003e, and for that he should be congratulated. \u003ci\u003eTrans-Americanity\u003c\/i\u003e is well worth reading.” -- Paul B. Wickelson * Rocky Mountain Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Saldıvar is one of the more interesting contemporary scholars in the field of American Studies. . .. [A]n excitingly inventive book that is sure to generate new avenues of scholarly inquiry.” -- Seth Horton * Journal of American Culture *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTrans-Americanity\u003c\/i\u003e is extraordinarily ambitious in its scope. . . .  By providing conceptual linkages between authors and texts that are rarely read or taught together, Saldívar provides a critical map for scholars seeking to transnationalize American and US Latina\/o studies.” -- Julie Minich * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTrans-Americanity\u003c\/i\u003e’s seven chapters, useful preface, and experimental ending offer broad intellectual coverage of Latin America, South Asia, and the Americas from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.” -- Karen Mary Davalos * American Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Americanity Otherwise ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxix\u003cbr\u003e 1. Unsettling Race, Coloniality, and Caste in Anzaldúa's \u003ci\u003eBorderlands\/La Frontera\u003c\/i\u003e, Martínez's \u003ci\u003eParrot in the Oven\u003c\/i\u003e, and Roy's \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Migratory Locations: Subaltern Modernity and José Martí's Trans-American Cultural Criticism 31\u003cbr\u003e 3. Looking Awry at the War of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo 57\u003cbr\u003e 4. In Search of the \"Mexican Elvis\": \u003ci\u003eBorder Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, Americanity, and Post–State-centric Thinking 75\u003cbr\u003e 5. Making U.S. Democracy Surreal: Political Race, Transmodern Realism, and the Miner's Canary 90\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Outernational Origins of Chicano\/a Literature: Paredes's Asian-Pacific Routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Américas Roots 123\u003cbr\u003e 7. Transnationalism Contested: On Sandra Cisnero's \u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Street and Caramelo or Puro Cuento\u003c\/i\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: On the Borderlands of U.S. Empire: The Limitations of Geography, Ideology, and Discipline 183\u003cbr\u003e Notes 213\u003cbr\u003e References 239\u003cbr\u003e Index 257","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138191589719,"sku":"9780822350835","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822350835.jpg?v=1751918378","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transamericanity-9780822350835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}