Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics

Index

Index abolitionism, 202,205, 212­13 Adorno, Rolena, 20 affirmative action, 76, 91,93­94 Agamben, Giorgio: Infancy and History, 160 n. 6; Language and Death, 161 n. 7 agency, 71,72­73,173; oppositional,172 Ahmad, Aijaz, 191 n. 10 Allen, Paula Gunn, 198, 208­9, 217 n. i American identity, 72, 79, 94, 95 American Indian College Fund, 6,7, 10,12 American literature, 147­48,150­51,159; border of, 130,152 Amerindia, 221­22, 224;split image of, 228 Amerindian(s), 25, 85­87, 221,224, 228, 233­34, 242, 245;and democracy, 223­24; division of, 228;history,239; identity, 222,225;and "mother earth," 224­25; property of,223, 238­39; races of, 229; self­definition of, 245;writers,234 Anderson, Benedict, 45,54­57, 60 Anderson, Perry,49 anthropology, 26, 29, 61, 236, 243; Anglo­Amerindian, 232;and apology, 242;auto­, 232,234; "the Columbus" and, 24i;cultural,230; culture in, 45;of the other, 225, 243; proto­, 229 Anzaldiia, Gloria, 3,11­16, 20, 22,30,85, 121,122,153,195,198; Borderlands/La Frontera, i, 10,84, 200,212; conscious­ ness in, 86; final solution of, 86; indigenousness in, 13; nostalgia of, 87 aporia, 28,231 Arendt, Hannah, 102­3 Arteaga, Alfred, 2 authorship, 214; and authority,230 autoanthropology, 234, 242­43 autobiography: expectations of, 184; representation in, 186; self­ apprehension, 183;women's, 169 Baldwin, James,68 Barthes, Roland,61 Behar, Ruth, 26; Translated Woman, i being­in­common, 5 being­in­decision, 159 Benitez­Rojo, Antonio,59 Benjamin, Walter, 14,106­7 Berry, Harrison, 213,215­16; as property, 214; Slavery and Abolitionism, 213­15 Bhabha, Homi, 4­5,35 n. 6 Bierce, Ambrose, 97,120 bilingualism, 152;culture and,153 bioautography, 101,120 Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 218n. 7 259 26o Index Blanchot, Maurice, 139 border(s), 3, 6, 8, 9,14,15, 57,103,109, 120­21,130,133,137,148,155,159,189, 216­17, 236,255­56; and boarder(s), 20, 29,33, 99; as bordure,61; cinecultural, 101; crossing, 8,10,31, 115; cultural, 10; culture within,153; deconstructive power of, 196,203, 208; definition of, 43;disciplining of, 2; effects, 10,14,15,158; as exclusion, 3,16,17,21,23,24; feminism, 199; healing, 11­12,13; and "hero" stories, 195­96,203; idea of, i, 22,32,60; identities, 32,134; internal U.S., 2; legibility of, 135; limit of, 3, 22,33,141; narratives,32, 196; and nation, 196,208,215; and national cohesion, 202;as no­man's­ land, 107,109; oppositional consciousness, 19,196; police and patrolling of, i, 21,22;problem of, 6; and property, 15; racialization of, no; regions, 45; remapping of, 213; resistance along, 18,204; rule of, 153; self­consciousness, 131­32; subjects, 11,61; Texas­Mexico, 101,105,108­9, 115; as theoretical space, 200; theory, 29, 44, 45, 46,197,199­200,203; transgression of, 207; and translation, 141,146; U.S.­Mexico, i, 22,80,104,130; universal and local, 12—14; value of, 29; writing, 196,198, 201 border studies, 1­4,15, 21,28,30,32,33, 197­201; American literature as,29; identity politics of,31 borderland(s), i, 3,16,17,21,29,33, 60­61,130,195,198­99; anthropology, 2; cinematic image of, 109; cultural, 46,51,57,91; definition of, 43; model of, 32;pilgrimatic state of, 112; psychological, 11; sexual, n; spiritual, n; Texas­Mexico, 20; theory of, 14,53,56; U.S.­Mexico,3, 11,60 Borges, Jorge Luis, 129­30,134,158,162 n. 13; "La biblioteca de Babel," 135­36; Ficdones, 143; "Garden of Forking Paths," 156;"Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote" 143­45 Broyles, YolandaJulia, 150 Bruce­Novoa, Juan,18,20­21,34 n. 3 Burgos, Elizabeth, 26; Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu, 26­27 Cabeza de Vaca,Alvar Nunez, 16­18, 20­21,25­27; Naufragios, 20,24 Calderon, Hector, 217 n. i; and Jose David Saldivar,17­21,34 n. 4; Criticism in the Borderlands, i, 16,24, 27 capitalism, 44,57,76; late, 170 Castronovo, Russ,30,32,254 Chang, Elaine K., 29,30,32,33,255 chaos, 59 Chaplin, Charles, 97­122; and censorship, no, 119; and chaplain, 99,101,104; communist inclinations of, 107; conception of comedy of, 98; and Douglas Fairbanks, no; and First National Company, 117­18; The Gold Rush, 102; The GreatDictator, 98,105,114­15; and Hitler, 102, 115...