Part 1 Macondo or Death, But Not Exactly; Chapter 1 Traditionalism and Modernity in Latin American Culture, José Joaquín Brunner, Shara Moseley; Chapter 2 Modernity and Postmodernity in the Periphery, Jesús Martín Barbero, Kristina Ríos de Lumbreras; Chapter 3 Communications, Jesús Martín Barbero, Kristina Ríos de Lumbreras; Part 2 Changing Identities, or “Where do we come from” and “Where we are going?”; Chapter 4 The Challenges of Posmodernity and Globalization, Fernando Ainsa, Barbara Riess; Chapter 5 Postmodernism and Latin American Identity, Jorge Larraín; Chapter 6 Latin American Identity—Dramatized, José Joaquín Brunner, Shara Moseley; Part 3 Changing Realities, Politics, Arts: Strategies of/for Resistance; Chapter 7 Autochthonous Cultures and the Global Market, Mario Roberto Morales, Eva L. Ramírez; Chapter 8 Post-Cities and Politics, Armando Silva, Mary Louise Babineau; Chapter 9 Modern and Postmodern Aesthetics in Contemporary Argentine Theater (1985–1997), Osvaldo Pelletieri, Mary Louise Babineau; Chapter 10 Polarized Modernity, Raúl Bueno, Cynthia M. Tompkins; Chapter 11 The Latin American Writer in These Postmodern Times, Abelardo Castillo, Cynthia M. Tompkins; Part 4 Changing Cultural Dossier: Some Classic Texts from the 1990s; Chapter 12 Variations on Postmodernity, or, What Does the Latin American Postboom Mean?, Mempo Giardinelli, Daniel Joseph Smith; Chapter 13 Latin America and Postmodernity, Nelly Richards, Cynthia M. Tompkins; Chapter 14 Critique of Global Philosophy, Five Hundred Years Later, Rafael Ángel Herra, Sukhada Kilambi; Chapter 15 Cultural Topologies, Daniel Altamiranda, Hernán Thomas, Jean Graham-Jones; Chapter 16 Afterword, Horacio Machín;
Emil Volek is Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University and is a widely recognized authority on Latin American literature.