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