TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Tale of Two Texts: Orality, Oral History and Poetic Insult in the Desafio of Romano and Inacio in Patos (1874) LINDA LEWIN 1

The Cinergetic, Experimental Melodrama: Feminism and Neo-Machista National Consciousness in Mexican Film JULI A. KROLL 27

Balancing Freyre’s Vision with Brazil’s “Racial Democracy”: Dos Santo’s Casa Grande e Senzala Por Gilberto Freyre CHARLES HEATH 47

Chronicles of Mexico City Life: The Music of Rockdrigo González 
MARK HERNANDEZ 63

Performative Masculinities: the Pachuco and the Luchador in the Songs of Maldita Vecindad and Café Tacuba NOHEMY SOLÓRZANO-THOMPSON 79

The Good and Bad Women of Telenovelas: How to Tell Them Apart Using a Simple Maternity Test
JULEE TATE 97

Nueve reinas: A Sign of the Times (to come)
DONETTA HINES 113

Popular Sovereignty, Bakhtin, and the Sea in Jorge Amado’s Religion
PIERS ARMSTRONG 129

Violeta Parra, Radio Chilena, and the ‘Battle in Defense of the Authentic’ during the 1950s in Chile
ERICKA VERBA 151

Riding Against the Wave? Caballos salvajes and its Critique of Neoliberal Culture
CAROLINA ROCHA 167

La Habana: una ciudad que nunca duerme. Género y escritura en y después del periodo especial
MARÍA DEL MAR LÓPEZ-CABRALES 179

Gaucho Gazetteers, Popular Literature, and Politics in the Río de la Plata
WILLIAM ACREE 197

BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS
Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu
by Cristina Magaldi
Reviewed by Ronald Dolkart 217