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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2007): Fall 2007
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2007): Fall 2007
Published:
2012-05-21
Articles / Artículos
Spain at the Crossroads: Imperial Nostalgia or Modern Colonialism?
Alda Blanco
1-11
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La dimensión científica en la obra de Neruda
Hernán Loyola
12-28
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Raza y nación: el caso de Chile
Bernardo Subercaseaux
29-63
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“Signo de propiedad”: etnografía, raza y reconocimiento en José Martí
Jorge Camacho
64-85
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Torture Sees and Speaks: Guillermo Núñez’s Art in Chile’s Transition
Macarena Gómez-Barris
86-107
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‘The Eye that Cries’: The Politics of Representing Victims in Contemporary Peru
Katherine Hite
108-134
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De cultura y política: la política narrativa de José Miguel Varas y la revolución chilena
Gregory Lobo
135-158
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Codificación de la experiencia del sujeto proletario en Lanchas en la bahía de Manuel Rojas
Nicolás Salerno Fernández
159-172
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Notes / Notas
Area Studies Beyond Ontology: Notes on Latin American Studies, American Studies, and Inter-American Studies
Sophia McClennen
173-184
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Gerald Martin: El biógrafo de García Márquez en su laberinto
Alejandro Bruzual
185-200
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Reviews: Outlaws and Bandits
A Discourse Analysis of Mexican Banditry and National Identity. A Review of Chris Frazer's
Bandit Nation: A History of Outlaws and Cultural Struggle in Mexico, 1810-1920
(Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2006)
Amy Robinson
201-207
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Bringing Violence Back to the Forefront. A Review of Juan Pablo Dabove's
Nightmares of the Lettered City: Bandits and Literature in Latin America 1816-1929
(Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007)
Miguel A. Fernández
208-214
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Exorcising the Lettered City: The Literature of the Villista Revolution. A Review of Max Parra's
Writing Pancho Villa’s Revolution: Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico
(Austin: U of Texas P, 2005)
Pedro García-Caro
215-227
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Reviews: Testimonios
Politics, Rhetoric and the Future of Testimonio. A Review of Kimberly Nance's
Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio
(Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2006)
Patrick Dove
228-235
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The Spoken Animal: Politics, Language and History in Carlos Liscano's
Truck of Fools
. A Review of Carlos Liscano's
Truck of Fools
(Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2004)
Patrick Dove
236-242
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Memory Scripts in the Making: Chile’s 9/11 and the Struggle for Meaning. A Review of Steve J. Stern's
Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973-1988
(Durham: Duke UP, 2006)
Michael Lazzara
243-252
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Writing the Other: Rhetoric and Gender in Testimonial Writing. A Review of Joanna R. Bartow's
Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women’s Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory
(Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina PP, 2005)
Aarti Madan
253-258
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Reviews: Race, Culture and Identity
Negotiating Culture in Cuba’s Special Period. A Review of Sujatha Fernandes'
Cuba Represent!: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
(Durham: Duke UP, 2006)
Tania Triana
259-265
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African Diasporic Music Making Beyond the United States and Circum-Caribbean. A Review of Heidi C. Feldman's
Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
(Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2006)
Javier F. León
266-273
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Positioning the Past in the Present: Feldman’s “Memory Projects.” A Review of Heidi C. Feldman's
Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
(Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 20
Mónica M. Rojas
274-284
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The Rhythms of the Cuban Revolution. A Review of Robin D. Moore's
Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba
(Berkeley and LA: U of California P, 2006)
Sujatha Fernandes
285-290
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In Praise of Older Drummers: The Cuban Creators of Latin Jazz. A Review of Raul A. Fernandez's
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
(Berkeley: U of California P, 2006)
Kevin M. Delgado
291-303
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The Seductive Style of a Tex-Mex Cultural Critic. A Review of William A. Nericcio's
Tex{t}-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of The “Mexican” in America
(Austin: U of Texas P, 2007)
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
304-309
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Aesthetics and Performance of the Ishir of Paraguay. A Review of Ticio Escobar's
The Curse of Nemur. In Search of the Art, Myth, and Ritual of the Ishir
(Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007)
Marcela Mendoza
310-314
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Reviews: The U.S. and Latin America
The United States and Latin American State Terrorism. A Review of (eds.) C. Menjívar and N. Rodríguez's
When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror
(Austin: U of Texas P, 2005)
Thomas Wright
315-326
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A Promise of Historiographical Renewal for a New Generation of Radical Historians. A Review of Michel Gobat's
Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule
(Durham: Duke UP, 2005)
Louis Segal
327-338
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Chávez, Castro, Morales and the Democratization of Latin America. A Review of Tariq Ali's
Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
(London: Verso, 2006)
Kimberly Welch
339-344
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Reviews: Empire & Colonialism
Early Modern Iberian Science: Ignored But Not For Much Longer. A Review of Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra's
Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World
(Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006)
Mathew James Crawford
345-356
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Writing of Two Worlds. A Review of J.H. Elliott's
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830
(New Haven: Yale UP, 2006)
Camilla Townsend
357-362
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Bartolomé de Las Casas: Ecclesiastical Imperialist? A Review of Daniel Castro's
Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
(Durham: Duke UP, 2007)
Nicole von Germeten
363-365
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Spanish Colonialism and the Production of Knowledge. A Review of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara's
The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century
(Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007)
Alejandra Bronfman
366-369
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Something is Coming. A Review of Benedict Anderson's
Under Three Flags. Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
(London and New York: Verso, 2005)
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
370-375
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The Three Flags of Philippine Anti-Colonialism. A Review of Anderson, Benedict's
Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
London and New York: Verso, 2005)
Koichi Hagimoto
376-379
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Reviews: Poetry & Narrative
Omar Lara: la nueva frontera. Reseña de
Omar Lara: la nueva frontera
de Gilberto Triviños (Concepción: Ediciones U de Concepción, 2007)
Jaime Concha
380-387
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Virgilio Rodríguez y los poetas del desprendimiento. Reseña de
De ocio y cielo
de Virgilio Rodríguez (Santiago: Beuvedráis Editores, 2007)
Luis Correa-Díaz
388-392
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Writing and Reading in a Transnational Context: Light Fiction and Complicity in
The Ecuador Effect
. A Review of David E. Stuart's
The Ecuador Effect
(Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2007)
Michael Handelsman
393-401
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Reviews: Intellectuals & Politics in Modern Mexico
Progressive Pilgrim: Alma Reed and Felipe Carrillo Puerto's Revolutionary Yucatan. A Review of Alma Reed's
Peregrina: Love & Death in Mexico
con Intro. of M. K. Schuessler & Fwd. of Elena Poniatowska (Austin: U of Texas, 2007)
Ben Fallaw
402-411
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Homenaje a Elena Poniatowska: acercamientos a la vida y la obra de la escritora mexicana. Reseña de
Elena Poniatowska. An Intimate Biography
de Michael K. Schuessler (Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2007)
Alicia Rueda Acedo
412-416
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Reviews: Scientific & Academic Interventions
Anthropology and the Engaged Observer. A Review of (eds.) V. Sanford & A. Angel-Ajani's
Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism
(New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2006)
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
417-420
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Medicine and Public Health in Bolivia. A Review of Ann Zulawski's
Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950
(Durham: Duke UP 2007)
Adam Warren
421-429
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Science and Scientists in Latin America: An Historical Overview. A Review of (ed.) Juan José Saldaña's
Science in Latin America: A History
, (trans.) Bernabé Madrigal (Austin: U of Texas P, 2006)
Mark Carey
430-442
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