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Preface; Part I. History and the Literary Imagination: 1. Introduction Gari Laguardia and Bell Gale Chevigny; 2. ’Insatiable Unease’: Melville and Carpentier and the search for an American hermeneutic Bell Gale Chevigny; 3. The fiction of national formation: The Indigenista novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Rosario Castellanos Cynthia Steele; 4. Supplying demand: Walt Whitman as the liberal self Doris Sommer; 5. Caliban as poet: Reversing the maps of domination Susan Willis; 6. Mrs Williams’s William Carlos Julio Marzan; 7. Dreams of Two Americas Pablo Armando Fernandez; Part II. The Lives and Fictions of American Women: 8. Introduction Bell Gale Chevigny; 9. This life within me won’t keep still Electa Arenal; 10. Interview with Margaret Randall Bell Gale Chevigny; 11. An invitation to understanding among poor women of the Americas: The Color Purple and Hasta No verte, Jesus Mio Lisa Davis; 12. The other face of the phallus Luisa Valenzuela; 13. Plotting women: Popular narratives for women in the United States and in Latin America Jean Franco; Part III. Perspectives on Literary Criticism: 14. Introduction Gari Laguardia; 15. Northrop Frye, modern fantasy, centrist liberalism, antimarxism, passing time and other limits of American academic criticism Gene Bell-Villada; 16. Marvelous relaism/marvelous criticsm Gari Laguardia; 17. Bridge over troubled waters Edmundo Desnoes; 18. The poet as critics: Wallace Stevens and Octavio Paz Michael Wood; Index.

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