Alberto Moreiras is Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University. He is also coeditor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and coeditor of Nepantla: Views from South.

“The Exhaustion of Difference ‘pushes Latin Americanist fulfilment against its limits.’ The limits radiate out into the networks of subalternities, locationisms, Area Studies/Cultural Studies, globalization and transculturation-and beyond. In these pages high theory is at home with Latin American intellectual history and deft textual analysis.”-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present “With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field’s epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America.”-Nelly Richard, Editor, Revista de CrÍtica Cultural

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique 1. Global Fragments 2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism 3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits 4. Restitution and Appropriation 5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges 6. The End of Magical Realism: Jose Maria Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier 7. The Aura of Testimonio 8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques 9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness Notes Works Cited Index

Alberto Moreiras is Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University. He is also coeditor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and coeditor of Nepantla: Views from South.

“The Exhaustion of Difference ‘pushes Latin Americanist fulfilment against its limits.’ The limits radiate out into the networks of subalternities, locationisms, Area Studies/Cultural Studies, globalization and transculturation-and beyond. In these pages high theory is at home with Latin American intellectual history and deft textual analysis.”-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present “With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field’s epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America.”-Nelly Richard, Editor, Revista de CrÍtica Cultural

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique 1. Global Fragments 2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism 3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits 4. Restitution and Appropriation 5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges 6. The End of Magical Realism: Jose Maria Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier 7. The Aura of Testimonio 8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques 9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness Notes Works Cited Index

Alberto Moreiras is Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University. He is also coeditor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and coeditor of Nepantla: Views from South.

“The Exhaustion of Difference ‘pushes Latin Americanist fulfilment against its limits.’ The limits radiate out into the networks of subalternities, locationisms, Area Studies/Cultural Studies, globalization and transculturation-and beyond. In these pages high theory is at home with Latin American intellectual history and deft textual analysis.”-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present “With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field’s epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America.”-Nelly Richard, Editor, Revista de CrÍtica Cultural

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique 1. Global Fragments 2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism 3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits 4. Restitution and Appropriation 5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges 6. The End of Magical Realism: Jose Maria Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier 7. The Aura of Testimonio 8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques 9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness Notes Works Cited Index