Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to Readers -- One: Introduction -- I. "Occupation Texts" -- Two: Teaching Caribbean Texts: Outline for a Counterhegemonizing Pedagogy -- Three: "People without History": Central America in the Literary Imagination of the Metropolis -- II. Sui generis -- Four: Narrating the trujillato -- Five: The "Boom" Novel and the Cold War in Latin America -- III. Uncivil Society -- Six: Sport as Civil Society: Argentina's Generals Play Championship Soccer -- Seven: Hegemony or Ideology? Observations on Brazilian Fascism and the Cultural Criticism of Roberto Schwarz -- IV. Recolonizations -- Eight: Aesthetics and the Question of Colonial "Discourse" -- Nine: Phenomenology and Colony: Edmundo O'Gorman's The Invention of America -- V. Culture and Nation -- Ten: Split Nationalities -- Eleven: Indigenism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Problem of Universality -- Twelve: Nation and Narration in Latin America: Critical Reflections -- VI. Postmodernity -- Thirteen: Latin America and Postmodernism: A Brief Theoretical Inquiry -- Fourteen: Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics in Latin America -- VII. "Cultural Studies" -- Fifteen: The Cultural Studies Movement and Latin America: An Overview -- Sixteen: Transcultural/Subpolitical: Pitfalls of "Hybridity" -- Seventeen: Brazilian Critical Theory and the Question of Cultural Studies -- Notes -- 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.