Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lec III Ramon Saldivar Stanford University

Identity, Naming, and the Symbolic Cultural Order of Subjectification, or What’s in a name? “And what shall we name him?” GWG I, 2, p. 15 “A great man who will help his people” GWG I, 2, p. 16 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

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) 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

Mikhail Bakhtin -- “Speech Genres and Other Essays” Forms of utterances Permissible locutions Normative restraints on intentions Boundaries of what one can say and not say 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

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 self” GWG III, 9, p. 147 Modernist checkerboard of consciousness 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

The transcultural Borderlands Subject GWG III, 9, p. 148 “gently prodded toward complete Americanization” GWG III, 9, p. 150 “name of contradiction” 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

Schools and the Process of Americanization Ideological State Apparatus American Ideological system Mexican folkloric cultural system 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

The Function of Folklore -- Antonio Gramsci Language itself Common sense Popular belief The entire system of daily life 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

Identity and the Economic, Social, and Cultural Forces GWG II, 1, p. 36 GWG IV, 3, pp. 195-6 Pre-capitalist subsistence agrarian life replaced by Modern large-scale market-oriented agri-business The last scene of Manifest Destiny 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

George G. Gómez and the Political Unconscious Pre-WW II “border security” GWG V, 5, p. 299 Guálinto’s recurring dream GWG V, 1, pp. 281-2: “childish daydreams” and “silly imaginings” Fantasy, the Unconscious, and History 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

The Limits of Male-gendered Narratives Corrido as male-gendered speech genre Joins patriarchal authority and defeat Failed utopian vision of novel’s end Points to new models of Identity formation 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG

Next Time Lecture I, Willa Cather, The Professor’s House (1925) Narrative Strategy and American Identity Formation 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG