The Burden of Modernity

• Preface and Acknowledgements 1: Modernity as Ideal and Curse 2: Reading Sarmiento: Once More, With Passion 3: Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Novel 4: Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's 'Una excursion a los indios Ranqueles' 5: Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story 6: The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's 'La tia Julia y el escribidor' 7: The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either) Bibliography

Susan Martin-Marquez's book is a wide-ranging revisionary project, ... The detailing is as meticulous and exciting as it is necessary and salutary. ... Key texts of feminist film theory are deftly summarized and their ideas, misconceptions, and mismatches with Spanish contexts illuminatingly placed in the argument, often side by side with the riches of textual archive work.