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 M�aana-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 D�oa Barbara by �Rmulo Gallegos -- D�oa Barbara / �Rmulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to Jose Mar�t's "Our America" -- Our America / Jose Mar�t -- 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.

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