Author Jose David Saldivar will speak Nov. 16 on 'border thinking'
(Nov. 12, 2001)--Jose David Saldivar, chair of ethnic studies at the University of California-Berkeley and a pathmaking researcher in cultural studies, will lecture on "Border Thinking and the Relocation of Chicano/a Narrative" from 4-6 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Downtown Campus Frio Street Building Room 1.406.
Saldivar, author of the book "Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies," will speak as part of the Literary and Cultural Studies Series “Why Humanities Now?” sponsored by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts.
"American literature has always been American race literature. We need to look at all cultural formations that contribute to American literature," said Saldivar. "We need to look at a variety of cultural formations that make up a national tradition, and the questions they pose. We're trying to democratize the study of culture."
"Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies" is a history of the development of U.S.-Mexican border thinking and cultural studies. Saldivar discusses in the book the exclusion of Chicanos as well as Asian-Americans and Native Americans from the American "literary canon," and examines everyday life and social construction along the 2,000-mile zone that he says both separates and unites the cultures of the United States and Mexico.
Saldivar has a B.A. from Yale, and an M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford in English and comparative literature.
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UTSA Literary and Cultural Studies Lecture Series
Additional Fall 2001 Events
November 26:
"Changing the World: The Challenge of African-American Poetry"
Lorenzo Thomas, University of Houston
1604 Campus, University Center Willow Room, 2 p.m.
November 29:
Faculty/Graduate Student Research Forum
Moderator: Debbie Lopez, UTSA Department of English
John Peace Library Building Assembly Room 4.03.08
5:30-9 p.m.
Literary and Cultural Studies Lecture Series Committee members are: Bernadette Andrea, Norma Cantu, Bill Mullen and Billy Weitzel. The Series is funded through the generous support of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. The Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professorship is made possible by a grant from the George W. Brackenridge Foundation.
For more information call (210) 458-5351.
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Author Jose David Saldivar will speak Nov. 16 on 'border thinking'
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