04137nam a2200445 a 4500 ebr10245693 CaPaEBR m o u cr cn||||||||| 140717s2007 txua sb s001 0 eng 2006038417 GBA759634 bnb 013805392 Uk 9780292709331 (cloth : alk. paper) 0292709331 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780292717503 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0292717504 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)656699022 cl----- F1408.3 .C44 2007eb 980 22 Ching, Erik Kristofer. Reframing Latin America [electronic resource] : a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Erik Ching, Christina Buckley, and Ang�elica Lozano-Alonso. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007. xviii, 349 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 Ma�nana-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 Do�na Barb�ara by R�omulo Gallegos -- Do�na Barb�ara / R�omulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to Jos�e Mart�i's "Our America" -- Our America / Jos�e Mart�i -- 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Spanish American literature History and criticism. Postmodernism. Culture. Latin America Civilization. Electronic books. local Buckley, Christina, 1969- Lozano-Alonso, Ang�elica, 1973- ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10245693 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 35530 35530