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Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lecture II

Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lecture II. Ramon Saldivar Stanford University. Américo Paredes (1915-1999). With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and its Hero (1958) “Problem of Identity in a Changing Culture” (1978). “Residual Cultural Order”.

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Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lecture II

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  1. Américo Paredes, George Washington GómezLecture II Ramon Saldivar Stanford University

  2. Américo Paredes (1915-1999) • With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and its Hero (1958) • “Problem of Identity in a Changing Culture” (1978) Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  3. “Residual Cultural Order” • Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature(1977) • The Seditionists of 1915 • The Plan of San Diego • Revolutionary Manifesto • Spanish-speaking Republic of the Southwest • Multicultural polity • Reprisals Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  4. War of Maneuver and War of Position-- Antonio Gramsci • War of Maneuver: Direct Action • Culture as Symbolic Action • Strategy of indirect cultural resistance • Music and other Oral Forms • Corridos/Ballads Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  5. What’s in a name? Or, Identity, Naming, and the Symbolic Cultural Order of Subjectification, • “And what shall we name him?” GWG, 15 • “A great man who will help his people” GWG, 16 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  6. Louis Althusser:Interpellation • Process whereby an “individual” is • “appointed as a subject in and by the specific familial [political] ideological configuration in which it is ‘expected’ once it has been conceived” • “Ideological State Apparatuses” (1971) • Repressive & Ideological State Apparatuses Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  7. Mikhail Bakhtin • Speech Genres: • Forms of utterances • Permissable locutions • Normative restraints on intentions • Boundaries of what one can say and not say Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  8. Identity and the Instability of the Name • GWG II, 4, pp. 50-51 “Why am I, I” • GWG III, 1, p. 110 “Indian name” • GWG III, 7, p. 137 “hate his name” • GWG III, 9, pp. 147-8 “Anglo-american selves” • GWG III, 9, p. 150 “name of contradiction” Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  9. Pablo Picasso,Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  10. The Function of Folklore • Language itself • Common sense • Popular belief • The entire system of daily life Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  11. Schools and the Process of Americanization • American Ideological system • Mexican folkloric cultural system Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  12. Identity and the Economic, Social, and Cultural Forces • GWG II, 1, p 36 • Pre-capitalist subsistence agrarian life replaced by • Modern large-scale market-oriented agri-business • The last scene of Manifest Destiny Paredes, George Washington Gómez

  13. “Leader of His People” • Fantasy, Utopia and the Political Unconscious • The shock of the Ending Paredes, George Washington Gómez

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