Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. In Memoriam 1
5. Part I. History and Remembrance as Social Aesthetics
6. 1 ‘‘The Memory Is All That Matters’’ 23
7. 2 A Life in the Borderlands 64
8. Part II. Fictions of the Transnational Imaginary
9. 3 The Checkerboard of Consciousness in George Washington Gómez 145
10. 4 Transnational Modernisms: Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the Four Freedoms 190
11. 5 Paredes and the Modernist Vernacular Intellectuals 226
12. 6 The Borders of Modernity 241
13. 7 Bilingual Aesthetics and the Law of the Heart 264
14. 8 Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories 289
15. 9 Narrative and the Idioms of Race, Nation, and Identity 318
16. 10 The Postwar Borderlands and the Origins of the Transnational Imaginary: The Occupation-Era Writings in Pacific Stars and Stripes and El Universal 344
17. 11 The Shadow and the Imaginary Functioning of Institutions 395
18. Conclusion. A Transsentimental Journey 432
19. Notes 439
20. Works Cited 477
21. Index 503