National Identities and Sociopolitical Changes in Latin America

Ed. Mercedes Durán-Cogan and Antonio Gómez-Moriana
In contrast to the dominant trends in Latin American Studies—which privilege either the literary, or the so called "areas studies," with its exclusive focus on political and economics issues—the basic assumption of this collective work is that the intricate web of discourse and other societal/symbolic practices in a given society results from, and nourishes, a complex dynamics of forces at play in the marketing of the Social. This dynamics, in its totality, constitutes a complex object of knowledge that this volume examines as a crossroads where historical contexts, economic and socio-political processes, and artistic representations interact.

Table of Contents

Introduction: National Identities and Sociopolitical Changes in Latin America

Antonio Gómez-Moriana and Mercedes F. Durán-Cogan

  1. The Concept of Identity

    Jorge Larraín Ibañez

  2. Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, Identity, the Puzzle of Conscious Experience, and What It Is Like to Be “Black”

    Sylvia Wynter

  3. Words and Images. Figurating and Dis-Figurating Identity

    Mercedes F. Durán-Cogan

  4. The Emergence of a Colonial (“Indian”) Voice: Inca Garcilaso and Guamán Poma

    Antonio Gómez Moriana

  5. Latin American Silver and the Early Globalization of World Trade

    Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez

  6. Ethnic Identity and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas

    José Alejos García

  7. The Indian Identity, the Existential Anguish and the Eternal Return (El tiempo principia en Xibalba, by Luis de Lión)

    Tatiana Bubnova

  8. Moors or Indians? Stereotype and the Crisis of (National) Identity in Ignacio Altamirano and Manuel de Jesús Galván

    Isabel de Sena

  9. Engendering the Nation, Nationalizing the Sacred: Guadalupismo and the Cinematic (Re)Formation of Mexican Consciousness

    Elena Feder

  10. The Rhetoric of Pathology: Political Propaganda and National Identity During the Military “Process” in Argentina

    James R. Cisneros

  11. National Identity and State Ideology in Argentina

    Victor Armony

  12. Caliban in Aztlan: From the Emergence of Chicano Discourse to the Plural Constitution of New Solidarities

    José Antonio Giménez Micó

  13. Between Iconography and Demonology: The Faces at the Fiesta of the Señor del Gran Poder

    Marcelo Nusenovich

  14. Valparaiso School of Architecture Dossier

    Various Authors

Afterword: Latin American Identities and Globalization

Horacio Machín and Nicolas Spadaccini