Contents
Acknowledgments
Abril Trigo, General Introduction
I. Forerunners: Introduction by Alicia Rıos, Traditions and Fractures in Latin American Cultural Studies
Antonio Candido, Literature and Underdevelopment
Darcy Ribeiro, Excerpts from The Americas and Civilization: ‘‘Evolutionary Acceleration and Historical Incorporation,’’ ‘‘The Genuine and the Spurious,’’ and ‘‘National Ethnic Typology,’’
Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Caliban: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our America
Antonio Cornejo Polar, Indigenismo and Heterogeneous Literatures: Their Double Sociocultural Statute
Antonio Cornejo Polar Mestizaje, Transculturation, Heterogeneity
Angel Rama, Literature and Culture
II. Foundations: Introduction by Ana Del Sarto, The 1980s: Foundations of Latin American Cultural Studies
Jean Franco, Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America
Carlos Monsivais, Would So Many Millions of People Not End Up Speaking English? The North American Culture and Mexico
Roberto Schwarz, Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination
Beatriz Sarlo, Intellectuals: Scission or Mimesis?
Walter Mignolo, The Movable Center: Geographical Discourses and Territoriality During the Expansion of the Spanish Empire
Jose Joaquın Brunner, Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture
Jesus Martın-Barbero, A Nocturnal Map to Explore a New Field
Nestor Garcıa Canclini, Cultural Studies from the 1980s to the 1990s: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives in Latin America
III. Practices: Introduction by Abril Trigo, The 1990s: Practices and Polemics within Latin American Cultural Studies
Irene Silverblatt, Political Disfranchisement
Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan, On Citizenship: The Grammatology of the Body-Politic
Eduardo Archetti, Male Hybrids in the World of Soccer
Adrian Gorelik and Graciela Silvestri, The Pastas the Future: A Reactive Utopia in Buenos Aires
Ana M. Lopez, Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the ‘‘Old’’ Mexican Cinema
Francine Masiello, The Unbearable Lightness of History: Bestseller Scripts for Our Times
Renato Ortiz, Legitimacy and Lifestyles
Daniel Mato, The Transnational Making of Representations of Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture: Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations at the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival
Gustavo A. Remedi, The Production of Local Public Spheres: Community Radio Stations
Roman De La Campa, Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse
Jose Rabasa, Of Zapatismo: Reflections on the Folkloric and the Impossible in a Subaltern Insurrection
Debra A. Castillo, Marıa Gudelia Rangel Gomez, and Armando Rosas Solıs, Tentative Exchanges: Tijuana Prostitutes and Their Clients
Juan Flores, The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity
IV. Positions and Polemics
John Beverley, Writing in Reverse: On the Project of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group
Mabel Morana, The Boom of the Subaltern
George Yudice, Latin American Intellectuals in a Post-Hegemonic Era
Hugo Achugar, Local/Global Latin Americanisms:‘‘Theoretical Babbling,’’ apropos Roberto Fernandez Retamar
Nelly Richard, Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism: Academic Knowledge, Theoretical Practice, and Cultural Criticism
Alberto Moreiras, Irruption and Conservation: Some Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique
Neil Larsen, The Cultural Studies Movement and Latin America: An Overview
John Kraniauskas, Hybridity in a Transnational Frame: Latin Americanist and Postcolonial Perspectives on Cultural Studies
Antonio Cornejo Polar, Mestizaje and Hybridity: The Risks of Metaphors—Notes
Works Cited
Acknowledgment of Copyrights
Index