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Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics

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Border Theory was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from original University of Minnesota Press editions.Challenging prevailing assumption that border studies occurs only in the borderlands where Mexico and United States meet, authors gathered in this volume examine multiple borders that define United States and Americas, including Mason-Dixon line, U.S.- Canadian border, shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and colonization and confinement of American Indians. The texts assembled here examine way border studies beckons us to rethink all objects of study and intellectual disciplines as versions of a border problematic.These writers-drawn from anthropology, history, and language studies-critique terrain, limits, and possibilities of border theory. They examine, among other topics, soft or friendly borders produced by ethnic studies, antiassimilationist or difference multiculturalisms, liberal anthropologies, and benevolent nationalisms. Referring to a range of theory (anthropological, sociological, feminist, Marxist, European postmodernist and poststructuralist, postcolonial, and ethnohistorical), authors trace genealogical and logical links between these discourses and border studies.A timely critique of a field just now revealing its explosive potential, this volume maps intellectual topography of border theory and challenges epistemological and political foundations of border studies. Contributors are Russ Castronovo, Elaine K. Chang, Louis Kaplan, Alejandro Lugo, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and Patricia Seed. Scott Michaelsen is assistant professor of English at Michigan State University. David E. Johnson is lecturer in Department of Modern Languages at State University of New York at Buffalo.

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