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The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary
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April 1, 2008
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LATINO/BORDER STUDIES The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. By Ramón SaldÃvar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 525. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.
Among the most important developments in Latino/a Studies of the past decades is a new emphasis on projects of literary recovery, which has moved the field away from a more exclusive focus on works published since the 1960s and toward a concern with the legacy of a longstanding Latino/a presence in the United States. At the center of these developments is Américo Paredes, the influential novelist, poet, journalist, and folklorist, who documented the ...
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