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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 Whats 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

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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)

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Mikhail Bakhtin -- Speech Genres and Other
Essays

• Speech Genres
• Forms of utterances
• Permissible locutions
• Normative restraints on intentions
• Boundaries of what one can say and not say

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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 self
• GWG III, 9, p. 147 Modernist checkerboard of
  consciousness

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Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912
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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

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Schools and the Process of Americanization

• Ideological State Apparatus
• American Ideological system
• Mexican folkloric cultural system

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The Function of Folklore -- Antonio Gramsci

• Language itself
• Common sense
• Popular belief
• The entire system of daily life

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Identity and the Economic, Social, and Cultural
Forces

• GWG II, 1, p. 36
• GWG IV, 3, pp. 195-6
• Pre-capitalist subsistence agrarian life replaced
  by
• Modern large-scale market-oriented agri-business
• The last scene of Manifest Destiny

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George G. Gómez and the Political Unconscious

• Pre-WW II border security GWG V, 5, p. 299
• Guálintos recurring dream GWG V, 1, pp. 281-2
• childish daydreams and silly imaginings
• Fantasy, the Unconscious, and History

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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 novels end
• Points to new models of Identity formation

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Next Time

• Lecture I, Willa Cather, The Professors House
  (1925)
• Narrative Strategy and American Identity Formation