Miguel Angel Asturias's Archeology of Return Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The tales that now no one believes: Leyendas de Guatemala	16
	The first steps	17
	Mythmaker	22
	Proteus in the streets of Paris	27
	Making "fabula rasa" of surrealism	33
	The birth of neo-Indigenismo	37
	Tropical anamorphosis	42
	Resolution as solution	64
	The sifting of ancient times	66
2	Becoming ants after the harvest: Hombres de maiz	85
	Sinbad sails home	85
	A unifying principle	90
	Burning water	98
	Opossum's dawn	104
	Uneven Eve	108
	Coyote's covenant	123
	Tall tales made to order	127
	A new American idiom	138
	The role of animals	141
	Numbers	150
	Colors	154
3	If all the dead began to walk, the earth would be full of steps: Mulata de tal	161
	The short-lived republic of "bread, land, and freedom"	162
	After the fall	166
	The devil bearing gifts	169
	The transgressive power of eroticism	183
	Money doesn't smell	196
	The world upside down	213
	In praise of folly	227
	Conclusion: From death unto life	238
	Notes	255
	Bibliography	285
	Index	295