Introduction William G. Acree Jr. and Juan Carlos González Espitia Part I. Lasting Impressions 1. Foundational Images in Latin America Hugo Achugar 2. Words, Wars, and Public Celebrations: The Emergence of Rioplatense Print Culture William G. Acree Jr. 3.

Novels, Newspapers, and Nation: The Beginnings of Serial Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Amy E. Wright 4. Toikove Ñane Retã! Republican Nationalism at the Battlefield Crossings of Print and Speech in Wartime Paraguay, 1867-1868 Michael Kenneth Huner Part II. Cultures on Display 5. Forms of Historic Imagination: Visual Culture, Historiography, and the Tropes of War in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela Beatriz González-Stephan 6. Anything Goes: Carnivalesque Transgressions in Nineteenth-Century Latin América John Charles Chasteen 7. Performing the Porfiriato: Federico Gamboa and the Negotiation of Power Stuart A. Day Part III.

Ideologies, Revelations, and Hidden Nations 8. The Imponderable and the Permissible: Caste Wars, Culture Wars, and Porfirian Piety in the Yucatán Peninsula Terry Rugeley 9. Birds of a Feather: Pollos and the Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of Mexican Homosexuality Christopher Conway 10. Unveiling the Mask of Modernity: A Critical Gendered Perspective of Amistad funesta and the Early Chronicles of José Martí Patricia Lapolla Swier 11. A Brief Syphilography of Nineteenth-Century Latin America Juan Carlos González Espitia.