Am - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

About This Presentation
Title:

Am

Description:

Am rico Paredes, George Washington G mez Lecture II Ramon Saldivar Stanford University Am rico Paredes (1915-1999) With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:42
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 14
Provided by: RamonSa4
Learn more at: http://web.stanford.edu
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Am


1
Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lecture
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)

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

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

5
Whats 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

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

7
Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Speech Genres
  • Forms of utterances
  • Permissable locutions
  • Normative restraints on intentions
  • Boundaries of what one can say and not say

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

9
Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912
10
The Function of Folklore
  • Language itself
  • Common sense
  • Popular belief
  • The entire system of daily life

11
Schools and the Process of Americanization
  • American Ideological system
  • Mexican folkloric cultural system

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

13
Leader of His People
  • Fantasy, Utopia and the Political Unconscious
  • The shock of the Ending
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com