Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cross-Cultural Dialogues in a Global World -- 1. Cultures, Nations, Differences: The Paradoxical Fantasies of Liberalism as Democracy -- 2. Western Texts, Indigenous Histories, Feminist Readings: The Struggle for Civil Rights within the Context of Liberalism -- 3. Indigenous Creencias, Millenarian Cultures, and Counterpublic Persuasion -- 4. The Violent Text: Separating the Social and the Political -- 5. Constituting Subaltern Subjectivities, Disclosing Acts of Violence -- 6. Feminicidio, or the Serial Killings of Women: Labor Shifts and Disempowered Subjects at the Border -- 7. The Perverse Heterosexual -- Epilogue: Essentially Contested Concepts and Innocent Spaces -- Notes -- Index of Names.