Post-Authoritarian Cultures: Spain and Latin America's Southern Cone »

Luis Martin-Estudillo, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Iowa, is co-director of Ex Libris, Revista de Poesía. His latest book is La Mirada eliptica: el trasfondo barroco de la poesia Espanola contemporanea.

Roberto Ampuero, a Chilean novelist and writer for the New York Times syndicate, is the author of nine novels, which have been translated into ten languages.

This volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.

Introduction Roberto Ampuero and Luis Martín-Estudillo, "Consent and Its Discontents"

Contesting Power, Forging Commitment
1. Jorge Edwards, "Culture and Transition in Chile"
2. Juliet Lynd, "Writing from the Margins of the Chilean Miracle: Diamela Eltit and the Aesthetics and Politics of the Transition"
3. Hans-Otto Dill, "The Riders Get off the Horse: David Viñas and the Demise of the Authoritarian Argentine Military"
4. Luis Bagué Quílez, "A Journey through the Desert: Trends of Commitment in Contemporary Spanish Poetry"

Interrogating Memories
5. Ana Forcinito, "Testimonial Narratives in Post-Dictatorship Argentina: Survivors, Witnesses and the Reconstruction of the Past"
6. Gustavo Remedi, "Tejanos: The Uruguayan Transition Beyond"
7. Antonio Méndez Rubio, "Dancing with Destruction: Pop Music during the Spanish Transition"
8. Germán Labrador, "Popular Filmic Narratives and the Spanish Transition"

Looking In/Looking Out: Negotiating Identities
9. Estrella de Diego, "Staged Ethnicity, Acted Modernity: Identity and Gender Representations in Spanish Visual Culture (1968-2005)"
10. Carsten Humlebæk, "Creating a new cohesive national discourse in Spain after Franco"
11. David W. Foster, "Intellectuals, Queer Culture, and Post-Military Argentina"
12. Heinrich Sassenfeld, "Some notes on International Influences on Transition Processes in the Southern Cone"

Afterword Tom Lewi