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1
Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez Lecture
II

• Ramon Saldivar
• Stanford University

2
Américo Paredes (1915-1999)

• With His Pistol in His Hand A Border Ballad and
  its Hero (1958)
• Problem of Identity in a Changing Culture (1978)

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

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

5
Whats 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

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

7
Mikhail Bakhtin

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

8
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 selves
• GWG III, 9, p. 150 name of contradiction

9
Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. 1911 - 1912
10
The Function of Folklore

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

11
Schools and the Process of Americanization

• American Ideological system
• Mexican folkloric cultural system

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

13
Leader of His People

• Fantasy, Utopia and the Political Unconscious
• The shock of the Ending