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Idioms of Race, Nation, and Identity: Japan, Asia, and the US Borderlands
Ramón Saldívar, Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences, English and Comparative Literature, Chair of Department of English, Stanford University
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Friday, May 16th.
The Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity cordially invites you to join us for our monthly Faculty Seminar Series.
What does Asia have to do with the U.S.-Mexico borderlands? In November of 1945, a few weeks into the beginning of the postwar occupation of Japan, Américo Paredes, who would in later life become one of the foremost early scholars of the US-Mexico border and the borderlands landed in Nagoya, Japan. As a member of the Army of Occupation, Paredes began reporting in English for the Army newspaper Pacific Stars and Stripes and in Spanish for the Mexico City daily El Universal on the course of the new cultural, economic, and political forms being imposed on the ruins of the old in Japan. In these articles emerge a new vision of borderland theory, which was to reach full fruition years later in Paredess later research on the US-Mexico border.
RAMÓN SALDÍVAR is professor of English and of comparative literature and holds an endowed chair as the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences. His teaching and research focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century comparative literary studies, literary theory, the history of the novel, American cultural studies, and Chicano/U.S. Latino studies. Professor Saldívar has served on the editorial boards of Stanford University Press and the scholarly journals, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies,and Aztlán. His articles have appeared in MLN, ELH, Comparative Literature, Diacritics, Studies in the Novel, American Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, The South Atlantic Quarterly, New Literary History, and other major journals. He is author of the books Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce (Princeton, 1984) and Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference (Wisconsin, 1990). His new book is entitled, The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (Duke, 2006).
Professor Saldívar is a recipient of the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education and the Lillian and Thomas B. Rhodes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He served as vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford from 1994 to 1999. In 2002 he was named the first Milligan Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education as recognition for his contribution to undergraduate education at Stanford. He is currently chair of the Department of English at Stanford University.
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Seminar
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Thursday, May 22
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12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Building 460, Terrace Room, 4th Floor |
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cnqueen@stanford.edu
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