1. The Dialectics of Our America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. I. Metahistory and Dependency
6. 1. The Dialectics of Our America 3
7. 2. "Squeezed by the Banana Company": Dependency and Ideology in Macondo 23
8. 3. Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique 49
9. II. Magical Narratives
10. 4. The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo 87
11. 5. The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas's The Rain God 105
12. III. Caliban and Resistance Cultures
13. 6. The School of Caliban 123
14. Afterword: Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, and the Politics of the Possible 149
15. Notes 155
16. References 181
17. Index 197