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This compilation of essays takes a fresh look at Borges's work. A wide variety of topics, ranging from the European avant-garde to the impact of European science upon Argentine literature, is discussed from a mutiplicity of angles - the only unifying factor being the year 1996, when nearly all the essays were written. Most of them were presented as papers at a one-day conference held at the Institute of Romance Studies, in conjunction with the Institute of Latin American Studies. The purpose was to re-examine the work of Borges in the wake of the great changes in reading that 'theory' had brought about and which Borges had somehow foreshadowed, though of course not systematised. Contributors Include: Daniel Balderston, University of Iowa; Malcolm Bowie, University of Oxford; Gabriel Josipovici, University of Sussex; Bernard McGuirk, University of Nottingham; Sylvia Molloy, New York University; Eduardo L. Ortiz, Imperial College; William Rowe, Birkbeck College, London; Jason Wilson, University College, London.

This book considers the relationship between the humanities and the sciences in a Latin American context. The geographical emphasis is important, given the prominent role of science in the formation of the region's nation-states and its strong presence in Latin American cultural output. Most of the chapters focus on fictional narratives and scientific discourses. Questions of consent, resistance, and ideology in both fields are considered. The historical study of interplay between science and the novel helps identify what people were expected to believe at a given time, and reveals how these beliefs were sustained. This book provides insight into the connection between individual self-understanding and the surrounding world of science, within the broader question of the place of science in Latin American culture.
Chapters include: Darwin in South America: Geology, Imagination and Encounter Walking Backward to the Future: Time, Travel and Race Natural Parts and Unnatural Others: A reflection on Patrimony at the Turn of the 19th Century On the Transition from Realism to the Fantastic in the Argentina of the 1870s: Holmberg and the Six of Cordoba Literature and Science in Martinez Estrada's Work The Nature Effect in Latin American Science Publications: The Case of the Journal Redes Two Scientific Traditions in Martin Fierro Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction Constructing Postcoloniality: Scientific Enquiries in Cien Anos de Soledad Holograms and Simulacra: Bioy Casares, Subiela, Piglia The Desert Poetics of Mario Montalbetti: Writing, Knowledge, Topologies