""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Introduction""; ""1. Politics and Literature: Some Conceptual Tools""; ""2. The Politics of Contemporary Latin Americanism""; ""Part II: Foundational Narratives""; ""3. Jose Marti and His Legacy""; ""4. How to Read La Malinche""; ""Part III: Aesthetics, Liberalism, Modernity: The Literary and Political Career of Octavio Paz""; ""5. From Poetry to Politics: The Romantic Liberalism of Octavio Paz""; ""6. The Literary Intellectual in Democratizing Mexico""; ""7. The Incomplete End of Modernity of Octavio Paz""
""Part IV: Carlos Fuentes: Literature, Pluralism, Identity""""8. Literature and the Political Apprenticeship of Carlos Fuentes""; ""9. Carlos Fuentes: Pan-Hispanism in the Age of Multiculturalism""; ""Part V: Literary and Political Imagination in the Latin American New Novel""; ""10. Scenes of Instruction in Gabriel Garcia Marquez""; ""11. The Private and the Public: Mario Vargas Llosa on Literature and Politics""; ""12. Claribel Alegria and Ricardo Piglia: Experimental Writing and Political Commitment""; ""Conclusion: A Dialogue on Literature and Politics""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""
