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

2. Paredes, George Washington Gómez
Américo Paredes ( )
With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and its Hero (1958)
“Problem of Identity in a Changing Culture” (1978)
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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
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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
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5. 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
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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
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7. 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
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8. 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 selves”
GWG III, 9, p. 150 “name of contradiction”
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9. Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912
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10. The Function of Folklore
Language itself
Common sense
Popular belief
The entire system of daily life
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11. Schools and the Process of Americanization
American Ideological system
Mexican folkloric cultural system
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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
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13. Paredes, George Washington Gómez
“Leader of His People”
Fantasy, Utopia and the Political Unconscious
The shock of the Ending
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