Fernando Galvan, Julio Cafiero Serrano &
           Jose Santiago Fernandez Vazquez (eds)


       (Mis)Representations
                   Intersections of Culture and Power




                                                  PETER LANG
Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Oxford • Wien
Contents



FERNANDO G ALVAN
JULIO C ANERO SERRANO
JOSE SANTIAGO FERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ
Cultural Studies and the Politics of (Mis)Representation          9


Section One: General Issues

JOSE M ANUEL ESTEVEZ SAA
Anthropological vs Literary Impulse in the Framework
of Cultural Representations                                      15
JURGEN SCHLAEGER
Mis-Representing the City                                        25


Section Two: (Mis)Representation in the (Post)Colonial Context
FELICITY H AND
The Amritsar Massacre or the Beginning of the End of the Raj     45
DORA SALES SALVADOR
Forms, Representations and Voices:
Cultural Liminality in Vikram Chandra's Fiction                  57

JONATHAN P. A. S ELL
The Olive, the Arquebus, and the Lion:
Some Thoughts on the Representation of Landscape
in Sixteenth-Century Colonial Literature                         75
GRAHAM KEITH GREGOR
ENCARNA VIDAL RODRIGUEZ
'Termon, from Terminus, the God of Boundaries':
Brian Friel's Translations and the Remapping of Ireland          89
Section Three: (Mis)Representing Class, Gender and Sexuality

MELANIATERRAZAS
(Mis)Representing British Working Classes:
The Despicable (Mis)Use of Power of Vincent Penhale
in Percy Wyndham Lewis' The Vulgar Streak                      103

CRISTINA SANCHEZ CARRETERO
Popular Uses of Popular Culture: Power and Social
Class in Public Performances of Fictional Characters           111
CAMILA L OEW
Miss Represented: Women at War Propaganda vs
Autobiographical Writing                                       123

ANA G ARCIA ARROYO
Same-Sex Love in India: Images from Ancient,
Medieval and Modern Texts                                      135


Section Four: (Mis)Representing Race and Ethnicity

FRANCISCO A. LOMELI
Remapping the Post-Barrio: Beyond Turf and Graffiti            145
JULIO C ANERO SERRANO
Politics of'Chingando': Chicano Political
Misrepresentation in Heart of Aztldn and Alburquerque          157

MARIA A NTONI A OLIVER-ROTGER
(Mis)Representations of the Fetichized Chicano:
Guillermo Gomez-Pefia's Work in the Context of
the Latino Backlash and the Global Spectacle of Identity       173
CARMEN FLYS
Misrepresenting the Hard-Boiled Tradition: Community vs
Individualism in Contemporary Ethnic Detectives                183
C HRIS WEEDON
Putting the Record Straight: Representing the Black
Experience in Post-War Britain                                  201


Section Five: (Mis)Representation in the Educational Context
MARJA DUENAS
Misrepresentations of Cultural Minorities and Controversial
Social Issues in English as a Foreign Language Textbooks        217

EDIACRISTINAPINHO
Princes and Frogs in the Land of Broken Promises:
(Mis)Representations of Teach ing and Teachers                  231

MERCEDES BENGOECHEA
Some Considerations on Power and Mis-Representation
in the Linguistic Debates and Educational Polices of the 80's
in England and Wales                                            241

CELIA ROBERTS
Language Ideologies in Institutional Life: Turning Talk
into Misrepresentation                                          253


Annotated Bibliography
DAVID WALTON
Cultural Studies: A Critical Bibliography of Some Recent
Publications                                                    269