Contested Identities in Costa Rica: Constructions of the Tico in Literature and Film

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	The Tico
	Internal ‘Others’
	Normative Identity: Constructions and Challenges
1. The Creation of Tiquicidad and Theories of National Identity
	The Creation of Tiquicidad
	What Defines Us? Theories of National Identity
	The Tico ‘Other’ as a Postcolonial Power Formation
	Costa Rica’s Internal ‘Others’
	Defining the Costa Rican Internal ‘Other’: Subalternity, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality
2. Coded Messages: Costa Rican Protest Literature, 1970–1985
	Allegories of Identity in Los cuatro espejos by Quince Duncan
	The Use of Subtext for Feminist Critique in the Short Stories of Carmen Naranjo
	Encoding the Gay Experience in Costa Rica: The Fiction of Alfonso Chase
3. Reflecting the Nation: Costa Rican Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
	The History and Infrastructure of Costa Rican Cinema
	Situating Costa Rican Cinema
	Intersections at the Tico Centre: Esteban Ramírez’s Gestación (2009)
	Trans Spaces in San José: Jurgen Ureña’s Abrázame como antes (2016)
	Undercutting Norms at the Periphery: Paz Fábrega’s Agua fría de mar (2009)
	Constructing the Margins: Representing Limón in Patricia Velásquez’s Dos aguas (2014)
Some Concluding Remarks
	Who or What Counts as Tico?
	Challenges to the Norm
Bibliography
Index