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Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities be understood.Representing a broad range of contemporary criticism, this volume features many short essays by the most well-known and respected Latin Americanists, each devoting attention to specific matters of history. The topics range from Incan architecture to Chicano and Nuyorican habitats; from turn-of-the-century Argentine criminology to Caribbean homophobia; from the rhetorics of independence and dictatorship to Mexican ambivalence about opera and Brazil's move beyond monarchy; and from the precarious survival of the Spanish language in Latin America to its paradoxical legacy of enlightenment in the Philippines.CONTRIBUTORS Carlos J. Alonso, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, John Beverley, Debra A. Castillo, Arcadio Diaz-Quinones, Juan Flores, Mary M. Gaylord, Jose E. Limon, Josefina Ludmer, Francine Masiello, Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Walter D. Mignolo, Sylvia Molloy, Mary Louise Pratt, Vicente L. Rafael, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, Roberto Schwarz, Diana Taylor, Nancy Vogeley
List of contents
The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America / Doris Sommer
The Corpus Delicti / Josefina Ludmer
Overwriting Pinochet: Undoing the Culture of Fear in Chile / Mary Louise Pratt
The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis / Roberto Schwarz
Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism / Walter D. Mignolo
The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the
Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / José Antonio Mazzotti
The True History of Early Modern Writing in Spanish: Some American Reflections / Mary M. Gaylord
The Burden of Modernity / Carlos J. Alonso
Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the
Autonomista Tradition / Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones
Nation and Mockery: The Oppositional Writings of Simón Rodríguez / Susana Rotker
Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America's
Fin de Siglo / Francine Masiello
Italian Opera in Early National Mexico / Nancy Vogeley
The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta) / John Beverley
Reading Loose Women Reading / Debra A. Castillo
"Damnable Iteration": The Traps of Political Spectacle / Diana Taylor
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project / Antonio Benítez-Rojo
Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael
Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States:
Caballero, a Late Border Romance / José E. Limón
The Repose of Heroes / Julio Ramos
His America, Our America: José Martí Reads Whitman / Sylvia Molloy
Broken English Memories / Juan Flores
