Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics Book

Acknowledgments vii

Timeline ix

Introduction Juan E. De Castro Nicholas Birns 1

I Mario Vargas Llosa and the Neoliberal Turn

1 Mr. Vargas Llosa Goes to Washington Juan E. De Castro 21

2 The Wars of an Old-Fashioned (Neoliberal) Gentleman Fabiola Escárzaga 29

3 "Let's Make Owners and Entrepreneurs": Glimpses of Free Marketeers in Vargas Llosa's Novels Jean O'Bryan-Knight 47

II The Writings of the 1980s and 1990s

4 Appropriation in the Backlands: Is Mario Vargas Llosa at War with Euclides da Cunha? Nicholas Birns 71

5 Mario Vargas Llosa, the Fabulist of Queer Cleansing Paul Allatson 85

6 Going Native: Anti-indigenism in Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and Death in the Andes Ignacio López-Calvo 103

7 The Recovered Childhood: Utopian Liberalism and Mercantilism of the Skin in A Fish in the Water Sergio R. Franco 125

III Mario Vargas Llosa in the Twenty-First Century

8 Sex, Politics, and High Art: Vargas Llosa's Long Road to The Feast of the Goat Gene H. Bell-Villada 139

9 Humanism and Criticism: The Presence of French Culture in Vargas Llosa's Utopia Roland Forgues 159

IV Mario Vargas Llosa, Man of Letters

10 Vargas Llosa's Self-Definition as "The Man Who Writes and Thinks" Sabine Köllmann 173

11 Vargas Llosa and the History of Ideas: Avatars of a Dictionary Wilfrido H. Corral 189

Works Cited 213

Contributors 227

Index 229