Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics
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Written from diverse perspectives, the eleven essays that make up Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics portray the Peruvian novelist not only as one of the most celebrated writers of the last 50 years, but also as a central influence on the region’s political evolution. Ever since his conversion to free market ideology in the 1980s, Mario Vargas Llosa has waged public battle against what he believes are the scourges of socialism and populism. This book studies the fiction and journalism of Vargas Llosa in the context of his political thought.
Acknowledgments viiTimeline ixIntroduction Juan E. De Castro Nicholas Birns 1I Mario Vargas Llosa and the Neoliberal Turn1 Mr. Vargas Llosa Goes to Washington Juan E. De Castro 212 The Wars of an Old-Fashioned (Neoliberal) Gentleman Fabiola Escárzaga 293 "Let's Make Owners and Entrepreneurs": Glimpses of Free Marketeers in Vargas Llosa's Novels Jean O'Bryan-Knight 47II The Writings of the 1980s and 1990s4 Appropriation in the Backlands: Is Mario Vargas Llosa at War with Euclides da Cunha? Nicholas Birns 715 Mario Vargas Llosa, the Fabulist of Queer Cleansing Paul Allatson 856 Going Native: Anti-indigenism in Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and Death in the Andes Ignacio López-Calvo 1037 The Recovered Childhood: Utopian Liberalism and Mercantilism of the Skin in A Fish in the Water Sergio R. Franco 125III Mario Vargas Llosa in the Twenty-First Century8 Sex, Politics, and High Art: Vargas Llosa's Long Road to The Feast of the Goat Gene H. Bell-Villada 1399 Humanism and Criticism: The Presence of French Culture in Vargas Llosa's Utopia Roland Forgues 159IV Mario Vargas Llosa, Man of Letters10 Vargas Llosa's Self-Definition as "The Man Who Writes and Thinks" Sabine Köllmann 17311 Vargas Llosa and the History of Ideas: Avatars of a Dictionary Wilfrido H. Corral 189Works Cited 213Contributors 227Index 229
