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Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lec III
Ramon Saldivar Stanford University
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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
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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
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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
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Identity and the Instability of the Name
GWG II, 4, pp “Why am I, I” GWG III, 1, p. 110 “Indian name” GWG III, 7, p. 137 “hate his name” GWG III, 9, pp “Anglo-american self” GWG III, 9, p. 147 Modernist checkerboard of consciousness 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG
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Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912
11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG
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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
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Schools and the Process of Americanization
Ideological State Apparatus American Ideological system Mexican folkloric cultural system 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG
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The Function of Folklore -- Antonio Gramsci
Language itself Common sense Popular belief The entire system of daily life 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG
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Identity and the Economic, Social, and Cultural Forces
GWG II, 1, p. 36 GWG IV, 3, pp 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
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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 : “childish daydreams” and “silly imaginings” Fantasy, the Unconscious, and History 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG
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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
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Next Time Lecture I, Willa Cather, The Professor’s House (1925)
Narrative Strategy and American Identity Formation 11/14/2018 Paredes, GWG
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