1. Resisting Postmodernity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Resisting Postmodernity 1
5. I. Latin American Modernity
6. 2. Beyond Western Modernity? Rayuela as Critique 23
7. 3. Toward a Latin American Modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the Leap 50
8. 4. Latin American Modernity in Crisis: El beso de la mujer arana and the Argentine National Left 76
9. 5. Beyond Valentin's Dream: From the Crisis of Latin American Modernity 100
10. II. Argentine Postmodernity
11. 6. Resuscitating History in Respiracion artificial 121
12. 7. The Importance of Writing History; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Peron 149
13. III. Conclusion
14. 8. Speculations Toward Articulating Latin American Postmodernities 161
15. Notes 173
16. Bibliography 201
17. Index 221