ISSN: 1548-7083

Founded in 2003, A Contracorriente is a journal dedicated to Latin American studies that aims to foster intellectual debate about Latin American politics, history, economics, literature and culture.

 

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Table of Contents | Índice

Contributors | Colaboradores

Articles | Artículos

	Social Class and Popular Mobilisation in Chile: 1970-1973 Alan Angell (Oxford University)	1
	The Poetics of Revision: Tulio Mora’s Cementerio general Leslie Bayers (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)	52
	¿Fue José Carlos Mariátegui racista? Juan E. de Castro (Eugene Lang College)	80
	Nonsynchronism and Resistance as Praxis in Miguel Ángel Asturias Brian Davisson (University of California—Davis)	92
	The Indian Church and the Age of the Spirit: Joachimist Millenialism and fray Toribio de Motolinía’s Historia de los indios de la Nueva España Leisa Kauffmann (Wayne State University)	119
	Chuño Palma: A National Subject in Mother’s Time Zoya Khan (University of South Alabama)	137
	Los usos y abusos de la memoria de María Elena Moyano Jo-Marie Burt (George Mason University)	165
	Cartografía y perspectivas del “marxismo latinoamericano” Omar Acha y Débora D’ Antonio (Universidad de Buenos Aires)	210

Note | Nota

Discurso de incorporación a la Academia Chilena de la Lengua como miembro correspondiente en Cerdeña (Italia) Hernán Loyola (Università di Sássari)

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Debate

Lost in Translation: José Martí and the New American Studies Alfred J. López (Purdue University)

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Interview | Entrevista

“El cine militante es el cine abierto a la demanda de los compañeros:” una conversación con Fabián Pierucci del Grupo Alavío y Ágora TV Juan Carlos Rodríguez (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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Reviews | Reseñas

Mexico

	Benjamin T. Smith, Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. By Kenneth F. Maffitt (Kennesaw State University)	315
	William Beezley and Colin M. MacLachlan, Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946: An Introduction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. By Edward Wright-Ríos (Vanderbilt University)	322
	Jeffrey Bortz, Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. By John Lear (University of Puget Sound)	327
	Lawrence Gustave Desmond, ed. Yucatán Through Her Eyes. Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer & Expeditionary Photographer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. By Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock University)	336
	Joanne Hershfield, Imagining “la chica moderna”: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. By Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro (Franklin & Marshall College)	344
	Heather Levi, The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. By Julia Sloan (Cazenovia College)	349
	Ryan F. Long, Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2008. By Samuel Steinberg (Indiana University)	353

Central America

Severo Martínez Peláez, La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala, translated by Susan M. Neve and W. George Lovell, edited and introduced by W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009. By Paul Lokken (Bryant University)

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A Contracorriente is sponsored in part by the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at North Carolina State University