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Introduction: Mestizos, Come Home! -- Part I. Critiquing the Spanish Colonial Legacy -- The Casta Tradition and Mestizos in New Spain -- In Search of Mestizo Identity across the Americas -- Part II. Remapping the Mestizo Community -- There's No Place Like Aztlan : Land, the Southwest, and Rudolfo Anaya -- Remapping Community : Cinco de Mayo, Lowrider Car Culture, and the Day of the Dead -- Recovering the Body : Literature, Painting, and Sculpture -- Part III. The Literary Response -- Tom's Rivera and the Chicano Voice -- Write Home! : Chicano Literature, Chicano Studies, and Resolana -- Conclusion: A Better Future for America

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Science, Cognition, and Culture -- I. NARRATIVE STRUCTURES -- 1. Cognition and Narration: Binary Structures and the Nature of Meaning -- 2. Structures of Meaning: The Logic of Narrative and the Constitution of Literary Genres -- 3. Why Are There Old People? Narration, Natural History, and the Situation of Cognition -- II. CASES OF COGNITION -- 4. Special Cases: Freud, Einstein, and the Dream of Understanding -- 5. Psychoanalysis and Narration: Lacan, Greimas, and the Desire of Cognition -- 6. The Plain Sense of Things: Aging and the Rhetoric of Narration -- III. CULTURAL DISCOURSE -- 7. The Institution of Criticism: Pedagogy, Publishing, and Oppositional Criticism -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index