Volume 9, Number 2, Winter 2012

Contributors

Articles

• “Murió comiendo rata”: Power Relations in Pre-Sendero Ayacucho, Peru (1940-1983)
  Miguel La Serna

• Representations of Violence in Testimonies of the Campesino Movement in Veracruz
  Elissa Rashkin

• Into the Chilean Mines: The Dialectics of Land and Work in Baldomero Lillo’s “Sub terra”
  Benjamin Fraser

Reviews: Culture, Politics and History in Mexico

• Paul K. Eiss. “In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán”. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010
  By John Tutino

• Rachel A. Moore. “Forty Miles from the Sea: Xalapa, the Public Sphere, and the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011
  By Terry Rugeley

• Monica A. Rankin. “¡México, la patria!: Propaganda and Production during World War II”. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009
  By Joy Elizabeth Hayes

• ElizabethFitting. “The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside”. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010
  By Kathleen Musante DeWalt

• Ignacio Sánchez Prado. “Naciones intelectuales: las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959)”. Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2009
  By Manuel Gutiérrez

Reviews: Cities, Intellectuals and Culture in Latin America

• Young, Richard and Amanda Holmes, eds., “Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America”. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
  By Inga Veksler

Reviews: Politics, Culture and Ethnicity in Bolivia and Venezuela

• Bret Gustafson, “New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia”. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009
  By José Antonio Lucero

• Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing, with Félix Muruchi. “From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist’s Life”. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011
  By Robert Smale

• Ponniah, Thomas and Jonathan Eastwood, eds. “The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chávez”. Cambridge: Harvard Univ David Rockefeller, 2011
  By Marc Becker

Reviews: Culture and Politics in Argentina

• Andermann, Jens. “New Argentine Cinema”. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012
  By Isis Sadek

Reviews: The Politics of Law in Brazil

• Corrêa, Larissa Rosa. “A tessitura dos direitos: Patrões e empregados na Justiça do Trabalho, 1953-1964”. São Paulo: LTR, 2011
  By James P. Woodard

Volume 9, Number 1, Fall 2011

Articles

• Dialectical Criticism in the Provinces of the 'World Republic of Letters': The Primacy of the Object in the Work of Roberto Schwarz
  Silvia López

• Subcommander Marcos and Mexico’s Public Intellectuals: Octavio Rodríguez Araujo, Carlos Monsiváis, Elena Poniatowska and Pablo González Casanova
  Nicholas John Henck

Notes

• "Never Say I": Inscriptions and Erasures of the Self in Queer Poetry in Spanish and Portuguese
  Daniel Balderston

Reviews

Afro-Latin American Voices

• Ricardo Batrell. ”A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence”. Edited and translated by Mark A. Sanders. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010
  By Alex Borucki (University of California)

International Connections

• Carlos Ulises Decena, “Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men”. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2011
  By Diana J. Fox (Bridgewater State University)

• Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds., “A Century of Revolution. Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America’s Long Cold War”. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010
  By Arthur Schmidt (Temple University)

• Julie Shayne, “They Used To Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture and Feminism”. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2009
  By Joan Simalchik (University of Toronto—Mississauga)

Mexico

• “Santa: A Novel of Mexico City” by Federico Gamboa, Translated and Edited by John Charles Chasteen. University of North Carolina Press, 2010
  By Christopher Conway (The University of Texas at Arlington)

• Will Fowler, Ed. “Forceful Negotiations: The Origins of the ‘Pronunciamiento’ in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010
  By Daniel S. Haworth (University of Houston-Clear Lake)

• Sánchez, Fernando Fabio. “Artful Assassins: Murder as Art in Modern Mexico”. Trans. Stephen J. Clark. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010
  By Amy Robinson (Bowling Green State University)

Identities, Histories and Nations

• William Acree and Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia, eds., “Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations”. Vanderbilt University Press, 2009
  By Sarah C. Chambers (University of Minnesota)

• Patricia Jaymie Heilman, “Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980”. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010
  By Miguel La Serna (University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill)

• Stanley E. Blake, “The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil”. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011
  By Okezi T. Otovo (University of Vermont)

Volume 8, Number 3, Spring 2011

Articles

• Marco Antonio de la Parra: Recovering the Past to Create a Future
  Regina Faunes (St. Edward’s University—Austin)

Debate

• A Long Pattern of Not So Divine Intervention: A Commentary on Brian Loveman's “No Higher Law”
  Arthur Schmidt (Temple University)

Reviews

Colonialism and Indigeous Identity in Peru

• Heidi V. Scott, Contested Territory: “Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009
  By Stella Nair (University of California—Riverside)

Enduring Personalities

• Paulo Drinot, ed. “Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010
  By Marc Becker (Truman State University)

• Christopher Heaney, “Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu”. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
  By Willie Hiatt (Long Island University—Campus of C.W. Post)

Political History

• James N. Green, “We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010
  By Edward L. Cleary (Providence College)

• Peter V. N. Henderson, “Gabriel Garcia Moreno and Conservative State Formation in the Andes”. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008
  By Jordan E. Lauhon (University of California—Davis)

• Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein, eds. “Violent Democracies in Latin America”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010
  By Charles D. Brockett (Sewanee: The University of the South)

Brazil: Culture, Politics and Race

• Beatriz Góis Dantas, “Nago Granma & White Papa. Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity”. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
  By Anadelia A. Romo (Texas State University—San Marcos)

• “Lula, Filho do Brasil [Lula, Son of Brazil]” directed by Fábio Barreto. Rio de Janeiro: Producers LC Barreto, Filmes do Equador, Intervídeo Digital and Co-Producer Globo Filmes, 2009. 128 minutes
  By John French (Duke University) / Antonio Luigi Negro (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

• Anadelia A. Romo, “Brazil’s Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia”. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010
  By Patricia de Santana Pinho (University at Albany)

• Patricia de Santana Pinho, “Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia”. Translated by Elena Langdon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010
  By Stefania Capone (Université de Paris—Ouest—Nanterre/CNRS)

Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 2011

Articles

• Economic Crisis and the Politics of “Modernista” Prose
  Andrew Reynolds (West Texas A & M University)

• Identity and Collective Memory in Jorge Sanjinés’ “La nación clandestina”
  James Restrepo (University of Western Ontario)

• Globalizing Tradition: New Styles of Leadership and New Organizational Forms in Pehuenche Communities in Chile
  Claudio González-Parra and Jeanne W. Simon (Universidad de Concepción)

Debates

• Literature, History, and the Lost Republic. Rafael Rojas’s “Essays in Cuban Intellectual History”
  Román de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania)

• A Refutation of Lucero’s “Review of Peoples of the Earth”
  Martin Edwin Andersen (American University)

• A Reply to Andersen
  José Antonio Lucero (University of Washington)

• Who is exotic? Local Knowledge and the Problem of Translation
  Lauren Derby (University of California—Los Angeles)

Reviews

Memory and Human Rights

• Steve J. Stern, “Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006”. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010.
  By Michael J. Lazzara (University of California—Davis)

Art and Literature

• Anna Indych-López, “Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940”. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
  By Michele Greet (George Mason University)

• Luis E. Carranza, “Architecture as Revolution. Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico”. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
  By Andrew Grant Wood (University of Tulsa)