Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preamble 1
5. 1. The Case of the Speaking Statue: Ariel and the Magisterial Rhetoric of the Latin American Essay 8
6. 2. Dona Barbara Writes the Plain 33
7. 3. The Dictatorship of Rhetoric I The Rhetoric of Dictatorship 64
8. 4. Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice 86
9. 5. Los reyes: Cortazar's Mythology of Writing 98
10. 6. Biografla de un cimarron and the Novel of the Cuban Revolution 110
11. 7. Literature and Exile: Carpentier's "Right of Sanctuary" 124
12. "Meta-End," by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Translated, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes 137
13. Notes 169
14. Index 189