CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique 1
5. 1. Global Fragments 27
6. 2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism 49
7. 3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits 76
8. 4. Restitution and Appropriation 127
9. 5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges 162
10. 6. The End of Magical Realism: José María Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier 184
11. 7. The Aura of Testimonio 208
12. 8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques 239
13. 9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness 264
14. Notes 301
15. Works Cited 327
16. Index 345