I, the Supreme as Historical Novel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief vii
4. Complex Feelings about Borges 1
5. Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse 27
6. Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverría’s ‘‘The Slaughter House’ 35
7. Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature 64
8. From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the Latin American Historical Novel 79
9. Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers 96
10. Beneath the Sign of the Baroque 114
11. The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism 122
12. Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine Literature 154
13. Autobiography, Memoir, Diary 169
14. Martí in the Latin American Library 180
15. The Riches of Poverty Revisited 188
16. Lack and Excess in José Bianco’s Shadow Play 193
17. The Suffering Narrator 208
18. Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches 216
19. Notes on the ‘‘Holy Place’’ and ‘‘Otherness’’ in Cortázar’s Bestiary 232
20. I, the Supreme as Historical Novel 247
21. Thirty Years Later 263
22. Notes 271
23. Works Cited 291
24. Index 305