Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Children of the Chingada....Pages 1-18
Myth, Manipulation, and Violence: Relationships between National Identity and Political Violence....Pages 19-36
Languages of Nationalist Violence: Notes on Mexican Hispanophobia....Pages 37-53
Lucha and Cubanía: The (Re)Construction of a Cuban Historical Identity Through the Idea of (Revolutionary) Struggle....Pages 55-72
Contesting Imagined Communities: Gender, Nation, and Violence in El Salvador....Pages 73-90
National Identity and Violence: The Case of Colombia....Pages 91-109
National Identity and Political Violence: The Case of Venezuela....Pages 111-129
Political Violence, Cinematic Representation, and Peruvian National Identity: La Boca del Lobo (Francisco Lombardi, 1988) and La Vida es una Sola (Marianne Eyde, 1993)....Pages 131-148
Violence, the Left, and the Creation of Un Nuevo Chile....Pages 149-166
The Effects of State Violence on National Identity: The Fate of Chilean Historical Narratives Post 1973....Pages 167-185
“Muero con mi patria!” Myth, Political Violence, and the Construction of National Identity in Paraguay....Pages 187-205
Some Historical Observations on the Relationship between Nationalism and Political Violence in Argentina....Pages 207-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-244