Mary Beth Tierney-Tello is professor of Hispanic Studies at Wheaton College.

Introduction
Narrating the Child as National Subject
Geographies of Childhood
The Politics of Memory and Emotion
Chapter One. On Writing a National Child: Migrant Subjectivity and the Heterogeneous Nation
The Indigenous Within: Los ríos profundos
The Other Side of Criollo Subjectivity: Un mundo para Julius
Chapter Two. 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 País de Jauja
Chapter Three. The Child Between: Geographies of Childhood and the Role of Critical Memory
Remembering Childhood through Text and Image in Miguel Gutiérrez's La destrucción del reino
Narrative and Critical Memory in Ximena de dos caminos
Chapter Four. 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 Más allá de la ventana
Chapter Five. Children at the Margins: The Abject and National Communities
Snapshots of the Margins: "Los gallinazos sin plumas" and Caídos del cielo
Death and Resistance from the Margins: Montacerdos
Chapter Six. Remembering and Dismembering Gendering: Performing Adolescence in Word and Image
Dismembering and Remembering Pichula Cuéllar
In and About Homosexuality in No se lo digas a nadie
Conclusion. Childhood, Past and Future: New Feminine Political Agencies and Cultural
Citizenship on Film
Bibliography

Mining Memory examines how twentieth-century narratives and films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and adolescent protagonists and their evolution. The book shows that beyond representing the struggles of individual subjects, narratives of childhood are part of a process of constructing and reconstructing cultural identity.