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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Latin America in Bad Times -- 1. Dependency Theory and the Aporias of Latin American Modernity -- 2. Before the Nation: Creole Imposture or Creole Interregnum? -- 3. Caliban after Communism: Thoughts on the Future of Cuba -- 4. Torture, the Waning of the American Empire, and the "Spanish Path -- 5. Literature, Difference, and Equality: On an Episode in Don Quijote -- 6. Postcolonial Orientalism and Literature as Such -- 7. Can Criticism Be a Militant Practice? On Testimonio and Cartonera Literature -- 8. Subaltern Lives:On "La Parte de los Crímenes" in 2666, the Story of Bhuvaneswari Bhaduri, Two Films by Victor Gaviria, Fernando Mereilles's City of God, and Lurgio Gavilán's Memorias de un soldado desconocido -- 9. The Failure of Latin America -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.

Latinamericanism after 9/11 -- The persistence of the nation (against empire) -- Deconstruction and Latinamericanism (apropos Alberto Moreiras's the Exhaustion of difference) -- Between Ariel and Caliban : on the politics of location of Latinamericanism and the question of solidarity -- The neoconservative turn -- Beyond the paradigm of disillusion : rethinking the armed struggle in Latin America -- The subaltern and the state

Frontmatter -- ÍNDICE -- Nota de los traductores -- Al lector latinoamericano -- Introducción -- Capítulo I. Escribiendo al revés: el subalterno y los límites del saber académico -- Capítulo II. Transculturación y subalternidad: las afueras de la "ciudad letrada" -- Capítulo III. ¿Nuestra Rigoberta? Autoridad cultural y poder de gestión subalterno -- Capítulo IV. ¿Híbrido o binario? Sobre la categoría de "el pueblo" -- Capítulo V. Sociedad civil, hibridez y el "aspecto político" de los estudios culturales (sobre Canclini) -- Capítulo VI. Territorialidad, multiculturalismo y hegemonía: la cuestión de la nación -- Bibliografía

Critiques Hardt & Negri's treatment of the "multitude" in terms of subaltern identities, given that Empire (2000) largely considers identity politics as instrumental to empire & hegemony. Empire seems to argue both against liberal pluralism (ie, "identity") & yet for agency. The Christians-vs-Romans analogy is invoked to comment on the complicity of "others" with imperial power but also as a model for contesting it. 3 References.

The relative autonomy of the higher education system in the United States & other advanced capitalist countries is collapsing, posing new problems to students, faculty, & other workers in this sphere. The tremendous growth of higher education in the 1960s suggests that the principal relation between higher education & capitalism has shifted from the production of ideological/technical practices & elites to the production of a new type of labor power required by the growing 'white-collar' sector of the economy since World War II, especially in occupations like teaching, nursing, accounting, & engineering. Since higher education is now engaged in producing significant sections of the labor force, it is & will continue to be subject to fluctuations in the business cycle. In the 1960s demands by labor, minorities, women, etc, coincided with capitalist needs for new types of skilled workers, pushing up the percent of the college-aged population enrolled in higher education programs in states like Calif to almost 70%. It is clear that the labor done by faculty & other workers in the university is labor that 'folds into' the sphere of productive labor & thus belongs in the ensemble of socially unified labor capacity characteristic of advanced capitalist relations of production. All this has meant changes in the character of faculty-administration relations, curriculum, tuition policies, etc. Economic chaos & uncertainty plague all involved in higher education. Possibilities of fighting back include faculty unionism, student & graduate student organizations, & coalitions to defend higher education against retrenchment. In the long run, workers in the higher education system will have to recognize a communality of interest with workers in other sectors (& vice versa). This would involve the beginning elaboration of a socialist program for higher education in the United States. Modified AA.