Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics

1. Introduction
Juan E. Castro, Nicholas Birns

Part I. Mario Vargas Llosa and the Neoliberal Turn

2. Mr. Vargas Llosa Goes to Washington
Juan E. Castro

3. The Wars of an Old-Fashioned (Neoliberal) Gentleman
Fabiola Escárzaga

4. “Let’s Make Owners and Entrepreneurs”
Jean O’Bryan-Knight

Part II. The Writings of the 1980s and 1990s

5. Appropriation in the Backlands
Nicholas Birns

6. Mario Vargas Llosa, the Fabulist of Queer Cleansing
Paul Allatson

7. Going Native
Ignacio López-Calvo

8. The Recovered Childhood
Sergio R. Franco

Part III. Mario Vargas Llosa in the Twenty-First Century

9. Sex, Politics, and High Art
Gene H. Bell-Villada

10. Humanism and Criticism
Roland Forgues

Part IV. Mario Vargas Llosa, Man of Letters

11. Vargas Llosa’s Self-Definition as “The Man Who Writes and Thinks”
Sabine Köllmann

12. Vargas Llosa and the History of Ideas
Wilfrido H. Corral

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Latin American Politics, Latin American Culture, International Relations, Literature, general, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory