Border Matters Remapping American Cultural Studies (American Crossroads , No 1) Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

First line

This mapping of cultural theory within the discourse of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands is an invitation to literary scholars, historians, cultural studies critics, anthropologists, feminists, mass culture critics, public interest lawyers, and antiracists to redraw the borders between folklore and the counterdiscourses of marginality, between "everyday" culture and "high" culture, and between "people with culture" and "people between culture."

From the rear cover

"A brilliant new vision of the multiple migrations, metaphoric and material, that occur within and between intricate, evolving cultures of the U.S. and Mexico. By joining British and U.S. cultural studies to the study of the U.S. borderlands, Saldvar establishes the trans-Latin as a complex and contradictory space of ethnic identity, cultural imagination and political struggle. Border Matters is a groundbreaking book that not only casts light on regions that have been shadowed by neglect and disdain, but it also forces us to redraw, even unmap, the shifting intellectual borders of American cultural studies."--Michael Eric Dyson, Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line

"Border Matters is exemplary in its detailed and sophisticated investigation of cultural texts. . . . A valuable work of intellectual history as well as a tour de force of contemporary cultural criticism."--George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages

"Saldvar presents and reworks very complex issues in a manner that will make this book accessible, even inviting, to non-expert readers, yet he loses none of the edge of his argument. . . . This is a groundbreaking work that does much more than define a new field--it revolutionizes the predominant ways we tend to organize intellectual inquiry."--Carl Gutirrez-Jones, author of Rethinking the Borderlands