Jean Franco is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University.

Books that are so well crafted and so original that they make a difference in the evolution of a discipline do not come out often. This book by Franco, longtime literary and cultural observer of Latin America and professor emerita of Columbia University, is one such work...This book provides a unique understanding of both the literature and the politics of this important period in Latin American history.

• Introduction I. Conflicting Universals 1. Killing Them Softly: the Cold War and Culture 2. Communist Manifestoes 3. Liberated Territories II. Peripheral Fantasies 4. Anti-States 5. The Black Angel of Time 6. The Magic of Alterity III. A Cultural Revolution 7. Cultural Revolutions 8. The Seduction of Margins 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History 11. Inside the Empire Notes Index

Jean Franco is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University.

Books that are so well crafted and so original that they make a difference in the evolution of a discipline do not come out often. This book by Franco, longtime literary and cultural observer of Latin America and professor emerita of Columbia University, is one such work...This book provides a unique understanding of both the literature and the politics of this important period in Latin American history.

• Introduction I. Conflicting Universals 1. Killing Them Softly: the Cold War and Culture 2. Communist Manifestoes 3. Liberated Territories II. Peripheral Fantasies 4. Anti-States 5. The Black Angel of Time 6. The Magic of Alterity III. A Cultural Revolution 7. Cultural Revolutions 8. The Seduction of Margins 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History 11. Inside the Empire Notes Index

Jean Franco is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University.

Books that are so well crafted and so original that they make a difference in the evolution of a discipline do not come out often. This book by Franco, longtime literary and cultural observer of Latin America and professor emerita of Columbia University, is one such work...This book provides a unique understanding of both the literature and the politics of this important period in Latin American history.

• Introduction I. Conflicting Universals 1. Killing Them Softly: the Cold War and Culture 2. Communist Manifestoes 3. Liberated Territories II. Peripheral Fantasies 4. Anti-States 5. The Black Angel of Time 6. The Magic of Alterity III. A Cultural Revolution 7. Cultural Revolutions 8. The Seduction of Margins 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History 11. Inside the Empire Notes Index