Contents -- Introduction: Putting the World Back Into Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Literature -- ONE. A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction -- TWO. Putting the Fiction Back Into Arundhati Roy -- THREE. History as Handmaiden to Fiction in Amitav Ghosh -- FOUR. Fictional World Making in Zadie Smith and Hari Kunzru -- FIVE. This Is Your Brain on Latino Comics -- SIX. Reading the Latino Borderland Short Story -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.