Kate Jenckes is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. Origins and Orillas: History, City, and Death in the Early Poems
Family Trees
A Journey of No Return
Borges and His (Own) Precursors
Sepulchral Rhetoric
Life Possessions
Melancholic Fervor
The Orillas
Acts of Life
2. Bios-Graphus: Evaristo Carriego and the Limits of the Written Subject
The Fallible God of the "I"
Life and Death
The Other American Poet
The Paradoxes of Biography
Carriego Is (Not) Carriego
Violence, Life, and Law
"Generous" Duels
3. Allegory, Ideology, Infamy: Allegories of History in Historia
Universal de la Infamia
"National" Allegory
Ideology
Two Moments of Allegory
Infamy
Magical Endings Et Cetera
4. Reading History's Secrets in Benjamin and Borges
NotesHistorical Idealism and the Materiality of Writing
The Conquests of Time
History's Secrets
Possession or the "Weak Force" of Redemption
Refuting Time
Ego Sum
Terrible Infinity
Recurrent Imminence
Reading, Writing, Mourning History