Description
Book SynopsisAn illuminating primer that moves students and scholars beyond alienating terminology and toward accessible perspectives on Latin America and cultural studies.
Trade Review"An excellent resource, explicitly designed for use in undergraduate courses in Latin American historical, literary, and/or cultural studies. This text is significantly, and laudably, more ambitious than a traditional anthology, for the authors, who have team-taught a course based on these materials for a number of years, have also formulated a systematic pedagogical approach to the shift from modernism to postmodernism." Susan Martin-Marquez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University
Table of Contents
- 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) Film Foray: 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
