Geopolitics, culture, and the scientific imaginary in Latin America

Introduction: Reimagining Science in Latin America / Latin America's Scientific Landscapes. Bone Tales: Patagonian Monsters and the Paleontological Imagination / Nation as Laboratory: Rethinking Science Writing in Mexico's República Restaurada, 1868-1876 / Natural Histories of the Anthropocene: Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in the 1930s / Latin America as the Site of Knowledge Production. Empathy, Patients' Needs and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico / Between Potosí and Nuevo Potosí: Mineral Riches and Observations of Nature in the Colonial Andes, ca. 1590-1800 / Indigenous Medicine and Nation-Building: Hermilio Valdizán's Medical Project / Science and the Modern Nation. Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Land Surveys, Comparative Political Sociology, and the Malleability of Race / "Una nueva y gloriosa nación": Patriotic Lyrics and Scientific Culture in the Forging of Political Emancipation in Río de la Plata / Inventions and Discoveries in Letters to Perón: Dialogue and Autonomy in the Popular Technical Imagination in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s / Utopian Convergences between Science and the Arts. Modernismo, Spiritualism, and Science in Argentina at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of National Magazines / Doing Poetry with Science: Unthinking Knowledge in Sarduy, Perlongher, and Eielson / The Science of Reading Fiction: New (Post-Darwinian) Metaphors to Live By / Science, Epistemology, and the Critique of Modernity. Laboratories of Universality: A Genealogy of Solitary Latin American Inventors / The Politics of Relativity: Radical Epistemologies and the Revolutionary Potential of the Scientific Imaginary in José Carlos Mariátegui / Beyond Empiricism: Rolando García's Theory of Complex Systems and the Epistemological Consequences of a Nonlinear Universe

Teaching late-twentieth-century Mexicana and Chicana writers

Options for teaching ;

Mexicana Writers and Their Precursors -- Teaching Cartucho and Nellie Campobello's Goal of Restoring Pancho Villa to Mexican History / Sor Juana's Legacy and Rosario Castellanos's Feminist Essays / Testimony and Chronicle in Elena Poniatowska's Las mily una ... La herida de Paulina / Teaching Contemporary Mexico to General Education Students through Elena Poniatowska's Stories / Illness and Disability: From Narrative Prosthesis to Life Experience in Works by Maria Luisa Puga / Small Acts of Resistance: The New Woman Confronts Social Conventions in the Narratives of Silvia Molina / Symbols, Codes, and Points of Focus in Silvia Molina's "Mentira piadosa" / Narrative Spaces, Gender, and Sephardic Identity in Rosa Nissan's Novia que te vea / The Reader and the Text in Carmen Boullosa's Fragmented Narratives / Navigating Unanswerable Questions in Carmen Boullosa's "So Disappear" / Chicana Writers and Their Precursors -- Jovita Gonzalez and "Her People's History": Teaching Borderlands Culture through Close Reading and Archival Practice / Pre-Civil-Rights-Era Chicana Writing and the Impact of the Mexican Revolution: Josefina Niggli's Step Down, Elder Brother / Crossing the (Genre) Border: Sandra Cisneros's Genre Innovation in The House on Mango Street / Navigating Narrative Ambiguity in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters / The Holy and the Ordinary: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language in Denise Chavez's Face of an Angel / Deconstructing Mexican Masculinity in Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante / Norma Elia Cantu's Canicula and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands / La frontera in a Multiethnic Literature Classroom / The Personal and the Historical in Lucha Corpi's Detective Novels / Feminist Consciousness and Community Activism in Novels by Ana Castillo and Demetria Martinez / Domestication and Resistance in the Short Fiction of Alma Luz Villanueva and Helena Maria Viramontes / Lesson Plans for Four Stories in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" and Other Stories / Comparative Notions -- Bridging the Border: Guiding a Comparative Study of Nellie Campobello's Cartucho and Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street / Borderlands, Race, and Gender in Novels by Helena Maria Viramontes and Rosario Castellanos / Brianda Domecq's Novel La Santa de Cabora and a Southwest Chautauqua about the Curandera Teresa Urrea: A Personal Narrative / Weight, Writing, and Privilege: Carmen Boullosa, Elena Poniatowska, and Rosario Castellanos / Visual and Digital Strategies -- Life Writing, Biopics, Gender, and Media: Elena Poniatowska's Tinisima and Leonora / Visual Teaching Strategies and La Malinche as a Cultural Icon / Teaching Queer Chicana Writers through Historical Research, Blogs, and Podcasts / Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness and Digital Literacy through an Active Learning Project / Drama and Performance -- Reading, Witnessing, and Staging Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga's The Panza Monologues / Evolution of a Transnational Imaginary in the Drama of Josefina Niggli, Josefina Lopez, and Yareli Arizmendi / Confronting Gender and Sexual Identity in Cherrie Moraga's Shadow of a Man / Mapping and Performing Indigenous Mexicana Identities: Violeta Luna and the Woman of Maize

Ancient epistolary fictions : the letter in Greek literature

Rural women teachers in the United States : a sourcebook

Murder in postscript

A lady of letters mystery ;

Blacks and Jews in literary conversation

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;

The orphanage : a novel

Internat. English

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Margellos world republic of letters book.

The scarlet letter [sound recording (CD)]

The scarlet letter : a romance

Conquistadores : a new history of Spanish discovery and conquest

New history of Spanish discovery and conquest

The Honjin murders

Honjin satsujin jiken. English

The Three-Fingered Man -- The Descendants of the Honjin -- The Sound of a Koto -- A Great Tragedy -- A New Use for a Koto Pick -- A Sickle and a Koto Bridge -- A Strategy Meeting -- Kosuke Kindaichi -- The Cat's Grave -- A Conversation about Detective Novels -- Two Letters -- The Grave Is Opened -- Inspector Isokawa is Shaken -- Kosuke's Experiment -- The Tragedy of the Honjin -- The Rehearsal -- The Accidental Locked Room.

The library : a fragile history

curating the ruins -- Inception and survival. A confusion of scrolls ; Sanctuary ; Little monkeys and letters of gold -- The crisis of print. The infernal press ; Coming of age ; Reformations -- The new collectors. The professionals ; Idle books and riff raff ; Mission fields -- Between public and private. Grand designs ; Cardinal errors ; The antiquarians -- Fictions. Orderly minds ; Building empires ; Reading on the job -- The war on books. Surviving the twentieth century ; Wrestling with modernity ; Libraries, books and politics ; Reading without books.