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

What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? A Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction(s)
1) Post What?! (Not) An Abbreviated Introduction
2) Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S
3) Narrating about Narrative

Part II: Theory
4) An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923
Harry Foster, "A Gringo in Mañana-land"
5) Be Here (or There) Now
Stuart Hall, "Ethnicity: Identity and Difference"
6) Identity Construct #1: Race
Lawrence Blum, I'm Not a Racist But . . .
Peter Wade, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
7) Identity Construct #2: Class
David Parker, The Idea of the Middle Class
8) Identity Construct #3: Gender
Candace West and Don Zimmerman, "Doing Gender"
R. W. Connell, Masculinities
9) Identity Construct #4: Nation
Arthur de Gobineau, The Inequality of Human Races
Louis Pérez, On Becoming Cuban
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 III: Reading(s)
11) Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation
Domingo Sarmiento, Facundo
12) Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation
Introduction to Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Rómulo Gallegos, Doña Barbara
Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions
Doris Sommer, Foundational Fictions
Introduction to José Martí's "Our America"
José Martí, "Our America"
13) FilmForay: Los tres caballeros
Julianne Burton, "Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse"
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)
15) Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America?
Elena Garro, "It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas"
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"
17) Film Foray: Mi familia (My Family)
18) Are We There Yet? Testimonial Literature
Thomas Tirado, Celsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman
19) Some Closing Comments

Permissions Acknowledgments
Index