Borders and Margins

Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism

The book contains articles about J.L. Borges, Juan Goytisolo, Guamán Poma and theoretical aspects of 'Post-Modernism'.

Table of Contents
Preface: Borders and Margins or the Paradigm of Inquiry in the West
Excursus: What Are We After?
Post-Coloniality and Post-Modernity: Jorge Luis Borges: The Periphery in the Centre, the Periphery as the Centre, the Centre of the Periphery
Writing Sub-Alterity: Guamán Poma and Garcilaso, Inca
Borges, the Encounter, and the Other: Blacks and the Monstrous Races
Post-Modernism, Monotheism, Polysemy, Economism
Foe and Robinson Crusoe: An Examination of Place, Space, and Displacement in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature
The Commitment to Complicity: the Cathexis of the Other and Post-Colonial Theory
Mexican Female Imagery in Como Agua Para Chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate
From Where to Speak? Post-Modern/Post-Colonial Positionalities
Loving the Other: Subjectivities of Proximity in Hélène Cixous' The Book of Promethea
Rethinking Latin America: Post-Modernity's dumping grounds
Imagining the Other Among Us: Kathy Acker Between New York and "Algeria"
Letters in the Post, or How Juan Goytisolo Got to La Chanca
Index
Notes on the Contributors