Dr. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo was born in Segovia, Spain. He received his Bachelor's degree in English Philiosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He has a book in press: Marcos Aguinis: Historica de la opresion to be published by Edwin Mellen press in 2001. With over 30 articles, original poems, and book reviews published in journals such as Cuadernos Americanos, La Torre, Confluencia, Albade America, and Francographies, his main areas of research are Southern Cone narrative fiction in relation to Latin American thought and twentieth-century Latin American poetry. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Spanish at California State University, Los Angeles.

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• 1. Introduction 12. Social and Historical Context 3. Contextualization of Liberation Thought and the Exile Discourse in the Chilean Narrative Abroad 4. Tension Among Social Classes: Preliminaries of the 5. The Testimonial and Liberationist Narrative 6. Other Discourses of Liberation 7. The Demythologizing Novel