Description: Contents Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Resisting Postmodernity I Latin American Modernity 2 Beyond Western Modernity? Rayuela as Critique 3 Toward a Latin American Modernity: Rayuela, the Cuban Revolution, and the Leap 4 Latin American Modernity in Crisis: El beso de la mujer araa and the Argentine National Left 5 Beyond Valentn's Dream: From the Crisis of Latin American Modernity II Argentine Postmodernity 6 Resuscitating History in Respiracin artificial 7 The Importance of Writing History; or, On Louis Bonaparte and Juan Pern III Conclusion 8 Speculations Toward Articulating Latin American Postmodernities Notes Bibliography Index

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