Contents
Introduction: Latin America in Bad Times
1. Dependency Theory and the Aporias of Latin American Modernity
2. Before the Nation: Creole Imposture or Creole Interregnum?
3. Caliban after Communism: Thoughts on the Future of Cuba
4. Torture, the Waning of the American Empire, and the "Spanish Path"
5. Literature, Difference, and Equality: On an Episode in Don Quijote
6. Postcolonial Orientalism and Literature as Such
7. Can Criticism Be a Militant Practice? On Testimonio and Cartonera Literature
8. Subaltern Lives:On “La Parte de los Crímenes” in 2666, the Story of Bhuvaneswari Bhaduri, Two Films by Victor Gaviria, Fernando Mereilles’s City of God, and Lurgio Gavilán’s Memorias de un soldado desconocido
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The Failure of Latin America
Acknowledgements
References
Index