Reframing Latin America : A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Intro -- Contents -- What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? A Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: Introduction(s) -- Chapter 1. Post What?! (Not) An Abbreviated Introduction -- Chapter 2. Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S -- Chapter 3. Narrating about Narrative -- PART TWO: Theory -- Chapter 4. An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 -- Harry Foster, "A Gringo in Mañana-land" -- Chapter 5. Be Here (or There) Now -- Stuart Hall, "Ethnicity: Identity and Difference" -- Chapter 6. Identity Construct #1: Race -- Lawrence Blum, I'm Not a Racist But . . . -- Peter Wade, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America -- Chapter 7. Identity Construct #2: Class -- David Parker, The Idea of the Middle Class -- Chapter 8. Identity Construct #3: Gender -- Candace West and Don Zimmerman, "Doing Gender -- R. W. Connell, Masculinities -- Chapter 9. Identity Construct #4: Nation -- Arthur de Gobineau, The Inequality of Human Races -- Louis Pérez, On Becoming Cuban -- Chapter 10. Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Gerald Martin, Journeys Through the Labyrinth -- Leslie Bary, "The Search for Cultural Identity -- Walter Mignolo, Local Histories, Global Designs -- PART THREE: Reading(s) -- Chapter 11. Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Domingo Sarmiento, Facundo -- Chapter 12. Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to DOÑA BÁRBARA by Rómulo Gallegos -- Rómulo Gallegos, Doña Bárbara -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's FOUNDATIONAL FICTIONS -- Doris Sommer, Foundational Fictions -- Introduction to José Martí's "OUR AMERICA" -- José Martí, "Our America -- Chapter 13. Film Foray: The Three Caballeros -- Julianne Burton, "Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse -- Chapter 14. The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution.

Analyzing THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "THE HARSH ANGEL" -- Alma Guillermoprieto, "The Harsh Angel -- Film Analysis: SOY CUBA/YA KUBA ( I AM CUBA) -- Chapter 15. Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? -- Elena Garro, "It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas -- Chapter 16. Film Foray: Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) -- Barbara Tenenbaum, "Why Tita Didn't Marry the Doctor,or Mexican History in Like Water for Chocolate -- Harmony Wu, "Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas -- Chapter 17. Film Foray: Mi familia (My Family) -- Chapter 18. Are We There Yet? Testimonial Literature -- Thomas Tirado, Celsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman -- Chapter 19. Some Closing Comments -- Permissions Acknowledgments -- Index.

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