Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique
1. Global Fragments

2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism

3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits

4. Restitution and Appropriation

5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges

6. The End of Magical Realism: Jose Maria Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier

7. The Aura of Testimonio

8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques

9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Alberto Moreiras is Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University. He is also coeditor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and coeditor of Nepantla: Views from South.

Reviews

"The time is certainly ripe for a book with the ambition and competence this one doubtless has... it succeeds admirably in its project of intellectually ransoming and enhancing Latin Americanism, and of clearing a space for meaningful debate."--Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol 35, part 1, February 2003