Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Masking, Misrecognition, Mimicry -- PART I: Undisguised Masking -- ONE: Dispossession, Nonpossession, and Self-Possession: Postindependence Masking in Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance -- TWO: The New Visibilities: Middle-Class Cosmopolitanism in the Street -- PART II: Masking through Language -- THREE: Specularity and the Language of Corpulence: Estrella's Body in Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres -- FOUR: Turning a Blind Eye in the Name of the Law: Cultural Alienation in Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.