Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Allegory and Mourning in Postdictatorship 1
5. 1. OEDIPUS IN POST-AURATIC TIMES Modernization and Mourning in the Spanish American Boom 22
6. 2.THE GENEALOGY OF A DEFEAT Latin American Culture under Dictatorship 39
7. 3. COUNTERTRADITIONS The Allegorical Rewriting of the Past 86
8. 4. ENCRYPTING RESTITUTION A Detective Story in the City of the Dead 107
9. 5. PASTICHE, REPETITION, AND THE ANGEL OF HISTORY'S FORGED SIGNATURE 136
10. 6. OVERCODIFICATION OF THE MARGINS Figures of the Eternal Return and the Apocalypse 164
11. 7. BILDUNGSROMAN AT A STANDSTILL, OR THE WEAKENING OF STORYTELLING 186
12. 8. THE UNMOURNED DEAD AND THE PROMISE OF RESTITUTION 210
13. AFTER WORD Postdictatorship and Postmodernity 230
14. Notes 235
15. Works Cited 271
16. Index 287