Marta Hernández Salván is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Riverside.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Sovereignty of Violence

2. Violence and Melancholia in the Eighties and Nineties

3. Biopolitics and the Revival of José Lezama Lima in the Eighties and Nineties

4. Humanism, Irony, and the End of Literature

Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index