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Signs of Fiction and Existence: An Introduction
Unreadable Signs
1. Jarchar: Reading Makina/Makina Reading in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán el fin del mundo
Financial Signs
2. Real Deals with the Devil: A Disappointing Quarter Century of Spanish Democracy and Belén Gopegui’s Lo real
3. “Cuando lejos me vi”: Alephs and Other Views of Argentina in Tomás Eloy Martínez’s El cantor de tangos
4. Walking at World’s End: Not Stopping to Make Sense of César Aira’s La villa
Signs of Violence
5. The Trauma of Incompetence: Violence and Viewpoint in Santiago Roncagliolo’s Abril rojo
6. A la calle: Violence and Rock-Hard Solutions in Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Piedras encantadas
7. How It Was and Will Be: Paradise Crushed in Evelio Rosero’s Los ejércitos
8. Possibly True Tales of our Fathers: Autofiction and Memory Recovery in Two Southern Cone Novels
9. “Aquí no hay nadie”: Writing, Reading, Knowing in Javier Cercas’s Soldados de Salamina
Signs of the Times and Places
10. No Island Is an Island (Even if It’s Still an Island): Nation and Alienation in Eduardo Lalo’s Simone
11. A Red Too Much: Intimate Politics in Wendy Guerra’s Todos se van
12. A Tale of Three and a Half Cities: Geographies of Identity in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Cualquier miércoles soy tuya
Universal Signs from the Heart of Nowhere
13. Global Citizenship Made in Asturias: Xuan Bello’s Paniceiros
Conclusion: Other Signs, Other Worlds
Acknowledgements and Note on Translations
Endnotes
Bibliography
Nathan Richardson
University of Texas at San Antonio
2021
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