04137nam a2200445 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095015001900112016001800131020003900149020003600188020003800224020003500262040002100297035002100318043001200339050002500351082001200376100002700388245018700415250001200602260004800614300002600662504005100688505242000739533015203159650005603311650001903367650001303386651003303399655002903432700003103461700003903492710001703531856012603548999001703674ebr10245693CaPaEBRm     o  u        cr cn|||||||||140717s2007    txua    sb   s001 0 eng    z  2006038417  aGBA7596342bnb7 z0138053922Uk  z9780292709331 (cloth : alk. paper)  z0292709331 (cloth : alk. paper)  z9780292717503 (pbk. : alk. paper)  z0292717504 (pbk. : alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)656699022  acl-----14aF1408.3b.C44 2007eb04a9802221 aChing, Erik Kristofer.10aReframing Latin Americah[electronic resource] :ba cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /cErik Ching, Christina Buckley, and Ang�elica Lozano-Alonso.  a1st ed.  aAustin :bUniversity of Texas Press,c2007.  axviii, 349 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aWhat 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2014.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aSpanish American literaturexHistory and criticism. 0aPostmodernism. 0aCulture. 0aLatin AmericaxCivilization. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aBuckley, Christina,d1969-1 aLozano-Alonso, Ang�elica,d1973-2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10245693zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c35530d35530