Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Writing and Rewriting Independence -- Reading Latin American Historical Fiction -- Writing Independence, Envisaging the Nation -- Rewriting Independence: Texts and Contexts -- 1. Revolution and Democracy: Mart�in Caparr�os's Ansay �o los infortunios de la gloria and Andr�es Rivera's La revoluci�on es un sue�no eterno -- Revolution: Victory, Death, and Critique -- Ansay �o los infortunios de la gloria: The Violence of the Absolute -- La revoluci�on es un sue�no eterno: From the Ideal to the Real -- Conclusion: Defining the Political -- 2 Fragmenting the Nation: Mart�in Kohan's El informe: San Mart�in y el otro cruce de los Andes and Osvaldo Soriano's El ojo de la patria -- Malvinas, Militarism, and Democracy: Questioning the Patria -- El informe: San Mart�in y el otro cruce de los Andes: Myth and Military Epic -- El ojo de la patria: Epistemology and 'Postnational' Dystopia -- Conclusion: Values Lost and Refounded -- 3 Peronism and the Popular: Washington Cucurto's 1810: la Revoluci�on de Mayo vivida por los negros and Manuel Santos I�nurrieta's Mariano Moreno y un teatro de operaciones -- History, Peronism, the Popular -- 1810: la Revoluci�on de Mayo vivida por los negros: Carnival and 'Contamination' -- Mariano Moreno y un teatro de operaciones: Democracy and Revolution -- Conclusion: Owning the Past -- Conclusion: Fiction and the Political Uses of History -- Bibliography -- Index.

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