Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies Volume 1

by José David Saldívar

Book Overview

Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. Jos Sald var 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. Sald var provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520206827
• ISBN13: 9780520206823
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"