{"product_id":"reframing-latin-america-9780292717503","title":"Reframing Latin America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn illuminating primer that moves students and scholars beyond alienating terminology and toward accessible perspectives on Latin America and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? A Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I: Introduction(s) \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1) Post What?! (Not) An Abbreviated Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2) Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3) Narrating about Narrative \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II: Theory \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4) An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Harry Foster, \"A Gringo in Mañana-land\" \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5) Be Here (or There) Now \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Stuart Hall, \"Ethnicity: Identity and Difference\" \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6) Identity Construct #1: Race \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lawrence Blum, \u003ci\u003e I'm Not a Racist But ...\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Peter Wade, \u003ci\u003eRace and Ethnicity in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7) Identity Construct #2: Class \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e David Parker, The Idea of the Middle Class \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8) Identity Construct #3: Gender \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Candace West and Don Zimmerman, \"Doing Gender\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e R. W. Connell, \u003ci\u003eMasculinities\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9) Identity Construct #4: Nation \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Arthur de Gobineau, \u003ci\u003eThe Inequality of Human Races\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Louis Pérez, \u003ci\u003eOn Becoming Cuban\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 10) Identity Construct #5: Latin America \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gerald Martin, \u003ci\u003eJourneys Through the Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Leslie Bary, \"The Search for Cultural Identity\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Walter Mignolo, \u003ci\u003eLocal Histories, Global Designs\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III: Reading(s) \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 11) Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Domingo Sarmiento, \u003ci\u003eFacundo\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 12) Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction to \u003ci\u003eDoña Barbara\u003c\/i\u003e by Rómulo Gallegos \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Rómulo Gallegos, \u003ci\u003eDoña Barbara\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction to Doris Sommer's \u003ci\u003eFoundational Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Doris Sommer, \u003ci\u003eFoundational Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction to José Martí's \"Our America\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e José Martí, \"Our America\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 13) Film Foray: \u003ci\u003eLos tres caballeros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Julianne Burton, \"Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse\" \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 14) The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Analyzing \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Film Analysis: \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's \"The Harsh Angel\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alma Guillermoprieto, \"The Harsh Angel\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Film Analysis: \u003ci\u003eSoy Cuba\/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 15) Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Elena Garro, \"It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas\" \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 16) Film Foray: \u003ci\u003eComo agua para chocolate\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eLike Water for Chocolate\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Barbara Tenenbaum, \"Why Tita Didn't Marry the Doctor, or Mexican History in \u003ci\u003eLike Water for Chocolate\u003c\/i\u003e\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Harmony Wu, \"Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 17) Film Foray: \u003ci\u003eMi familia (My Family)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 18) Are We There Yet? Testimonial Literature \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Thomas Tirado, \u003ci\u003eCelsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 19) Some Closing Comments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Permissions Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400853365079,"sku":"9780292717503","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292717503.jpg?v=1730471747","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reframing-latin-america-9780292717503","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}