Prelude: Excerpt from The use of thought / Samuel Ramos --
Early influences. Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes ; My cousin Agueda, and In the wet shadows / Ramón López Velarde ; Excerpt from Pedro Páramo / Juan Rulfo ; L.A. nocturne : the angels / Xavier Villaurrutia --
Chicano/a voices I: How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa ; India / Richard Rodriguez ; Meditations on the South Valley : Poem IX / Jimmy Santiago Baca ; B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca / Rudolfo Anaya --
Contemporary Mexican voices. Excerpt from The death of Artemio Cruz / Carlos Fuentes ; Introduction from Here's to you, Jesusa! / Elena Poniatowska ; The day of the dead, and I speak of the city / Octavio Paz ; Excerpt from The book of lamentations / Rosario Castellanos --
Chicano/a voices 2: Daddy with Chesterfields in a rolled up sleeve / Ana Castillo ; Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros ; Maria de Covina / Dagoberto Gilb ; Excerpt from Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Rubén Martínez --
New departures. Hagiography of the apostate / Ignacio Padilla ; Aunt Leonor, and Aunt Natalia / Ángeles Mastretta ; Identity hour or, What photos would you take of the endless city / Carlos Monsiváis ; Fish of fleeting skin / Coral Bracho.
