Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. On Writing a National Child: Migrant Subjectivity and the Heterogeneous Nation -- The Indigenous Within: Los rios profundos -- The Other Side of Criollo Subjectivity: Un mundo para Julius -- 2. Childhood Homes and Foundational History: Local Identities in National and Global Landscapes -- Local Agencies on the National Stage in De mi casona -- From Local to Global in Pais de Jauja -- 3. The Child Between: Geographies of Childhood and the Role of Critical Memory -- Remembering Childhood through Text and Image in Miguel Gutierrez's La destruccion del reino -- Narrative and Critical Memory in Ximena de dos caminos -- 4. Chronicles of Childhood: On the Politics of Nostalgia and Emotion -- Remembering Home: A Return to the Subjective in Entre el amor y la furia (1997) -- Nostalgic Affect and Countermemory in Mas alla de la ventana -- 5. Other Children: Marginal Childhood, the Abject, and National Communities -- Snapshots of the Margins: "Los gallinazos sin plumas" and Caidos del cielo -- Death and Resistance from the Margins: Montacerdos -- 6. Dismembering Gendering: Performing Adolescence in Word and Image -- Dismembering and Remembering Pichula Cuellar -- In and About Homosexuality in No se lo digas a nadie