Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction The Ends of History and “American” Studies
Chapter 1 Interdependent Methods: Postwar Cultural History, Historical Literature, and False Documents
Chapter 2 History’s Return: Literary Revisionism in North America, Hispanic America, and Brazil during the Lost Decade
Chapter 3 The Ends of Argentine Democracy: The False Memoir(s) and Cultural Hybridity behind Tomás Eloy Martínez’s The Perón Novel
Chapter 4 The “Dialectics” of Feminist Caribbean History: Laura Antillano, José Martí, and the Venezuelan Lost Decade
Chapter 5 History at the Periphery: Postdictatorial Literature and the Abandoned Generation of Ana Maria Machado’s Tropical Sun of Liberty
Chapter 6 Allegorizing Brazilian History: Silviano Santiago’s In Liberty, Invisible Texts, and Ideological Patrols
Chapter 7 The Many Deaths of Che Guevara: Jay Cantor’s Anxiety of Origins and the Limits of Transnationalism
Chapter 8 Renewing History? John Updike’s Critique of Cultural Studies and the Two Americas in Memories of the Ford Administration
Postscript Fake News and the New Lost Decade
Works Cited
Index