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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Myth of the Vulnerable Body 1 1 Lurking Shadows: Ethnography, Colonialism, and Crime in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique 29 2 Illness and Utopia in Severo Sarduy’s Pájaros de la playa 63 3 Coming of Age in the Tropics: Girlhood and the Making of the Colonial Body 104 4 Erotic Interventions: The Political and the Intimate in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother 144 5 Abjection and Aesthetic Violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s Trilogía sucia de La Habana 181 Notes 211 References 239 Index 249 ...