Description: Saldívar is one of the founders of border studies and one of the most respected senior scholars in American Studies. In this work he introduces the term "trans-Americanity" as a frame for thinking more hemispherically within a global, world-systems frame.
Review Quotes: "Saldívar is one of the boldest and most important scholars in American Studies today. Like few others, he engages what Martí calls Nuestra América, and for that he should be congratulated. Trans-Americanity is well worth reading."--Paul B. Wickelson, Rocky Mountain Review
"Saldıvar is one of the more interesting contemporary scholars in the field of American Studies. . .. [A]n excitingly inventive book that is sure to generate new avenues of scholarly inquiry."--Seth Horton, Journal of American Culture "Trans-Americanity is extraordinarily ambitious in its scope. . . . By providing conceptual linkages between authors and texts that are rarely read or taught together, Saldívar provides a critical map for scholars seeking to transnationalize American and US Latina/o studies."--Julie Minich, Journal of American Studies "Trans-Americanity's seven chapters, useful preface, and experimental ending offer broad intellectual coverage of Latin America, South Asia, and the Americas from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries."--Karen Mary Davalos, American Quarterly