José E Limón

Biographic Data

ID117599
NAMEJosé E Limón
GIVEN NAMESJosé E
FAMILY NAMELimón
SIGNATURELIMÓN J E
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS77
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Viva George: Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US–Mexico Border

    José E LimónARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2022

    Performance scholar Elaine A. Peña examines the George Washington's Birthday Celebration (WBC) held each February in Laredo, Texas, her hometown and mine. WBC began in 1898 and consists of a parade, balls, costuming, visiting dignitaries, and carnivals, some featuring American colonial themes but also Native American, principally a Pocahontas figure. White, Mexican, and Native American are only three of the ethnicities at play in this celebration…

  • Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry

    José E LimónBOOKMexican Ballads, Chicano Poems2019

    Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of literary influence but takes Bloom into the socio-political realm. Limón shows how Chicano poetry is nourished by the oral tradition of the Mexican cor…

  • The Return of the Mexican Ballad: America Paredes and His Anthropological Text as Persuasive Political Performances

    Open AccessJosé E LimónCHAPTERCreativity/Anthropology2018

    This essay's principal argument is that a particular anthropological text and its author, largely ignored in wider anthropological circles, have played a central influential role in the formation and development of a Mexican-American political culture in our time.I refer to Americo Paredes and his With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (1958Hero ( , 1971)), a study of the Mexican ballad, or corrido, and its sociocultural contex…

  • Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies of Space and Mind: Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction

    José E LimónARTICLEAmerican Literature2013

    Book Review| September 01 2013 Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies of Space and Mind: Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies. By Bebout, Lee. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2011. 264 pp. Paper, $25.00.Of Space and Mind: Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction. By Hamilton, Patrick L.. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pres…

  • Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States

    Katherine Benton-Cohen, Ramón A Gutiérrez et al.BOOKMexico and Mexicans in the making…2012

    Preface * Introduction: Mexico and Mexicans Making U.S. History John Tutino* Capitalist Foundations: Spanish North America, Mexico, and the United States John Tutino* Between Mexico and the United States: From Indios to Vaqueros in the Pastoral Borderlands Andrew C. Isenberg * Imagining Mexico in Love and War: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Visual Culture Shelley Streeby* Mexican Merchants and Teamsters on the Texas Cotton Road, 1862-1865…

  • “This Is Our Música, Guy!”: Tejanos and Ethno/Regional Musical Nationalism

    José E LimónCHAPTERTransnational encounters2011

    This chapter takes a somewhat testimonial tone to tell us how the author has witnessed the rise of an anti-Mexican rhetoric among Tejano groups that resonates with the larger anti-immigrant sentiment that has flourished in the U.S. in the last 15 years. The author shows how music and the ideas of loyalty and authenticity linked to it play a fundamental role in the validation of these discourses, as Mexican-American politicians in Texas capitalize…

  • Imagining the Imaginary: A Reply to Ramon Saldivar

    José E LimónARTICLEAmerican Literary History2009

    In his article, Ramon Saldívar correctly notes that one of the three principal concerns in my critique of his fine book had to do with the parallel relationship he, seemingly after Paredes, draws between the fate of Mexicans in the US borderlands and the fate of the Japanese under occupation. He says: “If I had made what would amount to a banal claim” by drawing such a parallel, “Limón would be justified in his critique,” but he says, “I did not.…

  • The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Practices. Angie Chabram-Dernersesian

    José E LimónARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2009

  • Of comedy and tragedy: A commentary on Adalberto Aguirre

    José E LimónARTICLEInternational Journal of…2005

    José Limón maintains that Professor Aguirre’s account may be construed as fundamentally a story of California, albeit one told from a Chicano perspective. It is based less on any red‐blooded forms of racism and more on the Roycean, Protestant, individualistic, comedic Anglo California that, in its relentless optimisms and perpetual newness, simply cannot bear witness to any traditions of tragedy or anything and anyone that would wish to speak of …

  • Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas

    Donald R Walker, José E LimónARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1998

  • Tex-Sex-Mex: American Identities, Lone Stars, and the Politics of Racialized Sexuality

    José E LimónARTICLEAmerican Literary History1997

    Journal Article Tex-Sex-Mex: American Identities, Lone Stars, and the Politics of Racialized Sexuality Get access José E. Limón José E. Limón Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 9, Issue 3, Fall 1997, Pages 598–616, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/9.3.598 Published: 01 October 1997

  • The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City

    Open AccessJosé E LimónREVIEWAmerican Anthropologist1997

    The Meanings of Macho: Being. Man in Mexico City. Matthew C. Gutmann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 330 pp

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican-American Women. Jeanette Rodriguez

    Open AccessJosé E LimónARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1995

  • Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry

    Charles W Macune, José E LimónARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1994

  • Poetry on the Border: Counter-Transformation at the Margins

    Open AccessMichael Saenz, José E LimónARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1993References: 1

    THIS STUDY, WRITES Jost LIM6N IN THE INTRODUCTION TO MEXICAN Ballads, Chicano Poems, an exploration of the social origins, continuity, transformation, and ideological meanings of a particular range of political poetry produced by men of Mexican descent, mostly in the United States. In the first half of the book, the men in question are the corrido singers -balladeers -of turn-of-the-century South Texas and Americo Paredes-the musician, novelist, …

  • Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry

    Lee Haring, José E LimónARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1993

  • Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian batos, disorder, and narrative discourses

    Open AccessJosé E LimónARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1989Cited by: 39References: 7

    This paper critically juxtaposes the subjugating, dominant discourses of elite Mexican thinkers like Octavio Paz concerning Mexican male, working-class, speech/body play with such performances as experienced in Mexican-American south Texas. The latter are interpreted as a counterhegemonic universe of discourses against these authoritative elite narratives. Nonetheless the paper is reflexively conscious of its own interpretive stance in this relat…

  • Frontiers, Settlements, and Development in Folklore Studies, 1972-1985

    José E Limón, M J Young et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology1986

    rary anthropological study of folklore with an additional consideration of others. Space considerations and intellectual saliency limit the total number of works we consider representative of these trajectories. Our title and primary focus come from our examination of the scholarly shape of the field as it has developed since the marked intervention in the early and mid 1970s of a new conceptual approach in the study of folklore. We refer to the …

  • The Anarchists of Casas Viejas

    José E Limón, Jerome R MintzARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1985

  • Western Marxism and Folklore: A Critical Reintroduction

    José E LimónARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1984

  • Texas-Mexican Popular Music and Dancing: Some Notes on History and Symbolic Process

    José E LimónARTICLELatin American Music Review1983

    Apres avoir decrit la musique et les danses populaires des Mexicains du Texas, l'A. suggere qu'elles constituent historiquement un acte de redressement symbolique resultant du clivage social qui commenca a se developper a partir de 1848

  • Legendry, Metafolklore, and Performance: A Mexican-American Example

    Open AccessJosé E LimónARTICLEWestern Folklore1983Cited by: 8

  • Western Marxism and Folklore: A Critical Introduction

    José E LimónARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1983Cited by: 8

    MARXIST SOCIAL THEORY is enjoying an unparalleled influence in the contemporary intellectual life of the West, and its presence in the United States is no exception (Aronowitz 1981:ix). Well developed Marxist perspectives are increasingly evident in the social sciences, historiography, and literary criticism; so it is, perhaps, something of a surprise to discover the relative absence of a parallel discussion in folkloristics. The reasons for this…

  • The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

    José E Limón, Michael A TaussigARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1983Cited by: 15

  • History, Chicano Joking, and the Varieties of Higher Education: Tradition and Performance as Critical Symbolic Action

    José E LimónARTICLEJournal of the Folklore Institute1982Cited by: 4

    History, Chicano Joking, and the Varieties of Higher Education: Tradition and Performance as Critical Symbolic Action, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol. 19, No. 2/3 (May - Dec., 1982), pp. 141-166