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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Cemetery of Words: Allen Memories, Resistance, and Restitution | |
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| Beginnings: Critiquing the "Falsified, Unseen, Betrayed Reality of the History of America" | |
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| Dangerous and Fertile Embraces: Speaking in the Name of the Other | |
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| Border Thinking and the Occidental Barbarian: Impersonating Civility | |
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| Writing Mirrors and Windows, Mapping Distortions | |
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| Literary Culture and Human Rights Theory | |
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| The Claims of the Universal | |
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| "And I Shall Do All the Evil and Damage to you that I Am Able": Rhetorical Violence, Discursive Rape, and the Requerimiento | |
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| "This Hangman's Shadow, Does it Come From My Body?": Early Modern Recognitions of Rights | |
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| The Literariness of Obedience: On the Threshold of Rights and Literary Theory | |
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| The Earth-Born Nobody: Being Human, Having Rights / Thinking Human, Thinking Rights | |
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| "The Child of No One": Gender, Imagined Families, Rights (In)Equality | |
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| The Unspeakable Legacy of Infinite Cruelty and Suffering: After Columbus, After Auschwitz, After... | |
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| "We Say No": The Politics of Style | |
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| Discrepant Engagements: Solidarity, Critical Consciousness, and Reciprocity | |
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| Coda | |
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| Through the Looking Glass: Story, Memory, and Testimonio | |
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| "The Light of Dead Stars Travels": The Writer as Storyteller | |
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| The Voice that Leaves the Mouth Behind: Stories for the Young (and) Old | |
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| "We Do Not Accept Humiliation": Crisis, Democracy, and Freedom of the Press | |
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| "The Future Has a Way of Coming from the Edges": Revisioning the Past to Envision the Future | |
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| Dissonant Histories, Literature, and the Reinvention of the Americas | |
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| History as Resistant Critique | |
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| "History Is an Incessant Metaphor": The End of the End of History | |
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| History's "Refuse": Benjamin, Galeano, and the "Power to Create" | |
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| "Deaths Without Relays": Stories about Memory and Disappearance | |
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| Dissonant History: The Carnival of Desire and Loss | |
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| Coda | |
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| Imagining Elsewhere as Here: Utoplan Ideals, Communities of Resistance, and a Time Beyond Infamy? | |
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| Writing That Conquers: "New" Worlds, "Ideal" Commonwealths, and Other Colonial Fictions | |
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| "Burn Even the Memory of It": From Utopia to Communities of Resistance | |
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| From Solitude to Solidarity: Love in the Time of Globalization | |
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| "Our Pyramids Are Words": Insurrections, Resurrections, and Magical Marxism | |
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| Is It Tomorrow? The Dream of the Blue Tiger | |
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| Works Consulted | |
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| Index | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Dangerous and Fertile Embraces 1 (1949) | |
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| Dangerous and Fertile Embraces 2, from Walking Words | |
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| The Floor Polisher, from Crisis 24 (1975) | |
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| The Coke Shack, from Crisis 24 (1975) | |
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| Luxury Vehicles, from Crisis 24 (1975) | |
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| Our North is South, from Upside Down | |
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| Greg Curnoe, "America" (1989) | |
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| Gregorio Selser, from Cuadernos de Crisis 9 (1974) | |
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| Gregorio Selser, from Cuadernos de Crisis 9 (1974) | |
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| Infinite Cruelty, from The Book of Embraces | |
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| Pedagogy of the Oppressed, from We Say No | |
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| Critical Consciousness?, Jose Francisco Borges, from Walking Words | |
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| Reciprocity?, from Walking Words | |
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| The Storyteller, from Cordel (1996) | |
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| Puno mask, from Ser Como Ellos (1997) | |
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| The Prostitute's Ascension, from Cordel (1996) | |
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| Old Man and Mirror, from La piedra arde (1980) | |
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| From Las aventuras de los jovenes dioses (1998) | |
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| Our Word is Our Weapon, from Shadows of Tender Fury (1995) | |
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| Crisis 24 (1975) | |
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| Crisis 40 (1976) | |
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| Saturnino Huilka, from Crisis 32 (1975) | |
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| Skeletons, from Upside Down | |
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| "The Little Revenge from the Periphery," Cartographies | |
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| Official History, from Crisis 55 (1987) | |
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| The End of History, from Upside Down | |
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| 1er Salon de Arte Cubano Contemporaneo (1995) | |
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| Deaths Without Relays, from Crisis 43 (1986) | |
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| Tactical Frivolity, Jose Guadalupe Posada | |
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| Sonar despierto, from Crisis 41 (1986) | |
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| Resurrections, from The Book of Embraces | |
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| The Embattled Caribbean, from The Book of Embraces | |
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| The Blue Tiger: Is It Tomorrow?, from Crisis 58 (1988) | |
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| Lying in Wait, from Crisis 42 (1986) | |
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| End of Chapter Images | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Eduardo Galeano, from The Book of Embraces | |
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| Eduardo Galeano, from Walking Words | |
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| Eduardo Galeano, from The Book of Embraces | |
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| Jose Planas Casas, Crisis 43 (1986) | |
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| Eduardo Galeano, from The Book of Embraces | |