Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It?
- Part I: Introduction(s)
- Post What?! (Not) An Abbreviated Introduction
- Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S
- Narrating about Narrative
- Part II: Theory
- An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923
- A Gringo in Mañana-land / Harry Foster
- Be Here (or There) Now: Ethnicity
- Identity and Difference / Stuart Hall
- Identity Construct #1: Race
- I'm Not a Racist But... / Lawrence Blum
- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America / Peter Wade
- Identity Construct #2: Class
- The Idea of the Middle Class / David Parker
- Identity Construct #3: Gender
- Doing Gender / Candace West and Don Zimmerman
- Masculinities / R. W. Connell
- Identity Construct #4: Nation
- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau
- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez
- Identity Construct #5: Latin America
- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin
- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary
- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo
- Reading(s)
- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation
- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento
- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation
- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos
- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos
- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions
- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer
- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America"
- Our America / José Martí
- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros
- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton
- 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"
- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto
- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba)
- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America?
- It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas / Elena Garro
- Film Foray: Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)
- Why Tita Didn't Marry the Doctor, or Mexican History in Like Water for Chocolate / Barbara Tenenbaum
- Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas/ Harmony Wu
- Film Foray: Mi familia (My Family)
- Are We There Yet? Testimonial Literature
- Celsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman / Thomas Tirado
- Some Closing Comments.