Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Space of Disappearance: Knowledge, Form, Rights
Historical Distortions
Modes of Disappearance
Refraction and Resistance
Literary Form and Human Rights
At the Limits of the Literary
The Book to Come
1. Mimesis by Other Means: The Aesthetics of Disappearance in Rodolfo Walsh's "Variaciones en rojo"
Operation True Crime
In the Beginning
Variations in Red
Privileged Sight
The Framing and Unframing of Art
Bloody Dawn
2. Double Exposure: The Hermeneutics of Catastrophe in Julio Cortázar's Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales
A Fellowship of Exile
On Gaining Political Purchase
Smokescreen
Catastrophe and Consciousness
Double Vision
Force of Form
3. In Abeyance: Strategies of Suspension in Tomás Eloy Martínez's La novela de Perón
Other Logics
A Deliberate Gap
Dead Center
What World Is This?
Where in the World?
Anticipatory Fictions
4. Errant Metonymy: The Embodiment of Disappearance in Tomás Eloy Martínez's Santa Evita
Liquid Sun
Null Intersection
Simulacra, Site, and the Superabundant
Burial Plots in the Bardo
Aesthetic Justice
Conclusion: The Disappearance of Literature
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is the editor of Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy.