- Introduction
- I. Conflicting Universals
- 1. Killing Them Softly: the Cold War and Culture
- 2. Communist Manifestoes
- 3. Liberated Territories
- II. Peripheral Fantasies
- 4. Anti-States
- 5. The Black Angel of Time
- 6. The Magic of Alterity
- III. A Cultural Revolution
- 7. Cultural Revolutions
- 8. The Seduction of Margins
- 9. Bodies in Distress: Narratives of Globalization
- 10. Obstinate Memory: Tainted History
- 11. Inside the Empire
- Notes
- Index
CONVERGENCES: INVENTORIES OF THE PRESENT


The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City
Latin America in the Cold War
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$40.00 • £34.95 • €36.95
ISBN 9780674008427
Publication Date: 06/24/2002
Awards & Accolades
- 2003 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History
- Honorable Mention, 2002 Katherine Singer Kovács Prize, Modern Language Association