Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics (Hardcover)

Introduction; J.E.De Castro & N.Birns PART I: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA AND THE NEOLIBERAL Mr. Vargas Llosa Goes to Washington; J.E.De Castro The Wars of an Old-Fashioned (Neoliberal) Gentleman; F.Escarzaga Let's Make Owners and Entrepreneurs: Glimpses of Freemarketeers in Vargas Llosa's Novels; J.O'Bryan Knight PART II: THE WRITINGS OF THE 1980S AND 1990S Appropriation in the Backlands: Is Mario Vargas Llosa at War with Euclides da Cunha?; N.Birns Mario Vargas Llosa, Fabulist of Queer Cleansing; P.Allatson Going Native: Anti-Indigenism in Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and Death in the Andes; I.Lopez-Calvo The Recovered Childhood: Utopian Liberalism and Mercantilism of the Skin in a Fish in the Water; S.R.Franco PART III: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA IN THE 21ST CENTURY Sex, Politics and High Art: Vargas Llosa's Long Road to the Feast of the Goat; G.Bell-Villada Humanism and Criticism: The Presence of French Culture in Vargas Llosa's Utopia; R.Forgues PART IV: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, MAN OF LETTERS Mario Vargas Llosa's Self-definition as 'the Man Who Writes and Thinks'; S.Kollmann Vargas Llosa and the History of Ideas: Avatars of a Dictionary; W.H.Corral