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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 Mąana-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 Dǫa Barbara by R̤mulo Gallegos
Dǫa Barbara / R̤mulo Gallegos
Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions
Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer
Introduction to Jose Mart̕'s "Our America"
Our America / Jose Mart̕
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.
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 Mąana-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 Dǫa Barbara by R̤mulo Gallegos
Dǫa Barbara / R̤mulo Gallegos
Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions
Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer
Introduction to Jose Mart̕'s "Our America"
Our America / Jose Mart̕
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.