The Usable Past : The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Anxiety of Origins: 1. The Usable Past: History as Idea in the Americas; 2. For the record: novels, newspapers, narration; 3. Ancestral presences: magical romance/magical realism; Part II. Intertextuality and Tradition: 4. Synchronic structures, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Conversation in the Cathedral Julio Cortazar, 62: A Model Kit; 5. Fragmentary fictions; 6. Cliches and community; Comparative conclusions: Baroque new worlds.