Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lecture II Ramon Saldivar Stanford University

Paredes, George Washington Gómez 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) 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

“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 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

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 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

Paredes, George Washington Gómez 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 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

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 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

Paredes, George Washington Gómez Mikhail Bakhtin Speech Genres: Forms of utterances Permissable locutions Normative restraints on intentions Boundaries of what one can say and not say 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

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” 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

The Function of Folklore Language itself Common sense Popular belief The entire system of daily life 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

Schools and the Process of Americanization American Ideological system Mexican folkloric cultural system 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

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 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez

Paredes, George Washington Gómez “Leader of His People” Fantasy, Utopia and the Political Unconscious The shock of the Ending 11/17/2018 Paredes, George Washington Gómez