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Guevara’s revolutionary consciousness,
247–250; and Latin
American essence, 250; and
religious framing, 249
Moya, Paula, 167
mulata, 256
Myth of Masculinity (Pleck), 129
myths and national identity. See
nation: and narratives
narrative, 51–60; and self, 82; and
testimonial literature, 318–330;
and truth in Mi familia, 309–310
narratologists, 51–54, 57
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 258
nation, 27, 95, 96, 97, 104, 106, 118,
134–146, 149, 165; and construction
of, 135; and essence, 27,
31, 134, 137; and fi lm, 228; and
modernism, 27, 37, 135, 136; and
narratives, 154–162
nationalism, xii, 81
nativism, 172
natural law, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16–18, 27
natural man, 222
Nature, as a concept in “Our
America” (Martí), 221, 224
Neitzsche, Friedrich, 79, 80
“New Man,” 257
Newton, Isaac, 17
“Nipona” (Huidobro), 20
Nobel Prize in Literature, 44, 59
non-Western, perspective, 12
Norte, El (Nava), 294, 306
Nussbaum, Martha, 332
objective truth, 9, 11, 14, 17, 20, 49,
52, 57. See also ontological truth;
truth claim
Office of Inter-American Affairs,
228
Olmos, Edward James, 306
On Becoming Cuban: Identity,
Nationality and Culture (Pérez),
137, 143
On Guerrilla Warfare (Guevara),
241
index 347
ontological truth, 19, 26, 33, 44,
48, 51–55, 58. See also objective
truth; truth claim
ontology, 17–29, 54–55, 59, 107
Orient, 19–21, 23
Orientalism (Said), 18–21
Orientalism, 20–21, 22, 23, 46
Orientalizing, 35
origin, 14, 16, 51
Ortega y Gasset, José, 53–54
Ortiz, Fernando, 152, 166
other, concept of the, 60, 81, 83
“Our America” (Martí), 150, 152,
219–227
Pablo the Penguin, in The Three
Caballeros, 229
pachuco, 310
Pan Americanism, 249, 252
Panchito, in The Three Caballeros,
229–236
Sancho Panza, 256
Parker, David, 37–38, 45, 104,
108–117, 151
Parsons, Talcott, 128
Paz, Octavio, 32, 150; and Elena
Garro, 269–272
Paz Estenssoro, Víctor, 254
Pérez, Louis, 137, 143–146
Perón, Juan and Eva, 239
“Pierre Menard: Author of The
Quixote” (Borges), 44
Piñeda Barnet, Enrique, 260
Pinochet, Au gusto, 170
Pleck, Joseph, 129
Political Change in Latin America
(Johnson), 109
political correctness, 12
popular culture, 13, 33, 52
positivism, 54
postcolonialism, 12, 33
postmodern era, 14
postmodernism, xi, 10–15, 18, 35,
36, 42–43, 53, 74, 80, 120, 130,
153; as a Eurocentric critique of
Eurocentrism, 168
postmodernity, 11–13, 15, 33, 101