Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. See(k)ing power / framing power in selected works of Jose Donoso / Sharon Magnarelli
  • Monuments and scribes: el hablador addresses ethnography / Sara Castro-Klaren
  • Delegitimizing carnival of el otono del patriarca / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego
  • Magus, masque, and the machinations of authority: Cortazar at play
  • Peter Standish
  • Politicizing myth and absence: from Macedonio Fernandez to Augusto Roa Bastos
  • Todd S. Garth
  • Underlying currents of "Caciquismo" in the marratives of Juan Rulfo / Jose Carlos Gonzalez Boixo
  • Cabrera infante's undertow / Terry J. Peavler
  • Of power and virgins: Alejandra Pizarnik's la condesa sangrienta / David William Foster
  • Politics of "Wargasm": sexuality, domination and female subversion in Luisa Valenzuela's Cambio de Armas / Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal.