The Boom of the Subaltern

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments, ix
4. General Introduction 1
5. I. Forerunners. Traditions and Fractures in Latin American Cultural Studies
6. Introduction 15
7. Literature and Underdevelopment 35
8. Excerpts from The Americas and Civilization: ‘‘Evolutionary Acceleration and Historical Incorporation,’’ ‘‘The Genuine and the Spurious,’’ and ‘‘National Ethnic Typology,’’ 58
9. Caliban: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our America 83
10. Indigenismo and Heterogeneous Literatures: Their Double Sociocultural Statute 100
11. Mestizaje, Transculturation, Heterogeneity 116
12. Literature and Culture 120
13. II. Foundations. The 1980s: Foundations of Latin American Cultural Studies
14. Introduction 153
15. Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America 183
16. Would So Many Millions of People Not End Up Speaking English? The North American Culture and Mexico 203
17. Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination 233
18. Intellectuals: Scission or Mimesis? 250
19. The Movable Center: Geographical Discourses and Territoriality During the Expansion of the Spanish Empire 262
20. Notes on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin American Culture 291
21. A Nocturnal Map to Explore a New Field 310
22. Cultural Studies from the 1980s to the 1990s: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives in Latin America 329
23. III. Practices .The 1990s: Practices and Polemics within Latin American Cultural Studies
24. Introduction 347
25. Political Disfranchisement 375
26. On Citizenship: The Grammatology of the Body-Politic 384
27. Male Hybrids in the World of Soccer 406
28. The Past as the Future: A Reactive Utopia in Buenos Aires 427
29. Tears and Desire:Women and Melodrama in the ‘‘Old’’ Mexican Cinema 441
30. The Unbearable Lightness of History: Bestseller Scripts for Our Times 459
31. Legitimacy and Lifestyles 474
32. The Transnational Making of Representations of Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture: Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations at the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival 498
33. The Production of Local Public Spheres: Community Radio Stations 513
34. Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse 535
35. Of Zapatismo: Reflections on the Folkloric and the Impossible in a Subaltern Insurrection 561
36. Tentative Exchanges: Tijuana Prostitutes and Their Clients 584
37. The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity 606
38. IV. Positions and Polemics
39. Writing in Reverse: On the Project of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group 623
40. The Boom of the Subaltern 643
41. Latin American Intellectuals in a Post-Hegemonic Era 655
42. Local/Global Latin Americanisms: “Theoretical Babbling,’’ apropos Roberto Fernandez Retamar 669
43. Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism: Academic Knowledge, Theoretical Practice, and Cultural Criticism 686
44. Irruption and Conservation: Some Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique 706
45. The Cultural Studies Movement and Latin America: An Overview 728
46. Hybridity in a Transnational Frame: Latin Americanist and Postcolonial Perspectives on Cultural Studies 736
47. Mestizaje and Hybridity: The Risks of Metaphors—Notes 760
48. Works Cited 765
49. Acknowledgment of Copyrights 805
50. Index 811