Introduction  1

1. Latinamericanism after 9/11  17

2. The Persistence of the Nation (against Empire)  26

3. Deconstruction and Latinamericanism (apropos Alberto Moreiras's The Exhaustion of Difference)  43

4. Between Ariel and Caliban: On the Politics of Location of Latinamericanism and the Question of Solidarity  60

5. The Neoconservative Turn  72

6. Beyond the Paradigm of Disillusion: Rethinking the Armed Struggle in Latin America  95

7. The Subaltern and the State  110

Notes  127

Bibliography  145

Index  155

“A wide-ranging treatise on Latinamericanism’s merits, faults, and promise, this book will assuredly offer food for thought for intellectuals on both sides of the North/South divide for many years to come.”—Michael J. Lazzara, Postcolonial Text

“Conversant across the disciplines (sociology, history, economics, politics, literary criticism) with worldwide theorists and familiar with a ‘studies’ approach, Beverley produces a book of ambitious scope with a striking conclusion that the reader, though disinclined to accept, is hard-pressed to ignore. Highly recommended.”—J. M. Beatson, Choice

“Through his decades of work and numerous publications in the field, Beverley remains as a shining example of a politically engaged scholar as seriously engaged with current politics as lived and practiced in Latin America.”
—Marc Becker, The Latin Americanist

“A wide-ranging treatise on Latinamericanism’s merits, faults, and promise, this book will assuredly offer food for thought for intellectuals on both sides of the North/South divide for many years to come.”—Michael J. Lazzara, Postcolonial Text

“Conversant across the disciplines (sociology, history, economics, politics, literary criticism) with worldwide theorists and familiar with a ‘studies’ approach, Beverley produces a book of ambitious scope with a striking conclusion that the reader, though disinclined to accept, is hard-pressed to ignore. Highly recommended.”—J. M. Beatson, Choice

“Through his decades of work and numerous publications in the field, Beverley remains as a shining example of a politically engaged scholar as seriously engaged with current politics as lived and practiced in Latin America.”
—Marc Becker, The Latin Americanist

“Latinamericanism after 9/11 presents new arguments that no one in the field of Latin American studies can afford to ignore. John Beverley addresses and complicates many of the debates conducted over the last decade on the question of Latinamericanism and Latin American studies. He engages with scholars writing from Latin America and those writing about it from elsewhere, and he is quite convincing in debunking the epistemological force often associated with this distinction.”—José Rabasa, Harvard University

“The spectrum of political possibilities and options is perhaps greater and more varied in Latin America today than anywhere else in the world. In the North, we can learn from it and learn from John Beverley’s book, which offers a comparative analysis rather than abstract political theory or journalistic sociology. Beverley is one of those rare thinkers who combines a keen theoretical mind with the realism of a shrewd and seasoned political intelligence. He always thinks politically, and it is a thought we find on every page here.”—Fredric Jameson, Duke University

“One does not need to agree with the conclusions reached by John Beverley in this daring book about the eroding grounds of Latin Americanist culturalist discourses in order to be moved, at each new turn, by the intellectual force and relevance of his arguments.”—Julio Ramos, University of California, Berkeley

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