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267 Index 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border (Herrera), 68–69, 238n5 1968 (year [as event, symbol]), 4, 6, 10–11, 62, 92, 161, 184, 190–191, 204–205; Badiou’s and Žižek’s conceptions of the “event,” 67–68; measuring the “event,” 66–74; as a “poem,” 59, 68–69, 85 “1968” (poem [Pacheco]), 16, 32, 54–60, 65; revision/diminishment of, 56, 59; as a work not yet finished, 57, 199 2666 (Bolaño), 221 accumulation, by dispossession, 128, 182 Acteal Massacre, 50–51, 54, 237n19 Adorno, Theodor, 10, 37, 45, 83; on the essays of Cruz, 167–168, 179 Affrilachian Poets, 151, 242n25 Agosín, Marjorie, 19, 220, 222, 223, 247nn11–12; femicide poems of, 224; and Latin American women poets, 224–225; on poetry and silence, 225–226 Agüeros, Jack, 18, 161, 188, 223, 243n5; “Banana Republic” sonnets of, 185–186; critical neglect of, 183–184; themes of transportation in his work, 182–183 Aguilar, Adrian Guillermo, 245n8 Alabama, punitive immigration laws of, xii– xiii, 146, 149, 156 “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” (Espada), 119, 131 Alarcón, Francisco X., 143, 223, 242n18 Alexander, Michelle, 238n2 Algarín, Miguel, 223 All Things Considered, 29–30, 36, 76 Allende, Salvador, 92, 107; election of, 93, 95; grief over the death of, 112; socialist revolution of, 85, 105 Alurista, 74, 90, 223, 238n4 Alvarez, Julia, 229 Alvaro Uribe: El Caballo de Troya del Neoliberalismo (Alvaro Uribe: The Trojan Horse of Neoliberalism [Caballero]), 122 Ambassadors of Culture (Gruesz), 239n3 Amulet (Bolaño), 92 Anaya, Rudolfo, 227 “Angel of History” (Benjamin), 2, 217 “Angels of Juárez, Mexico, The” (Gonzalez), 230–231 Anglin, Mary K., 135 “Animal Dreamed by Kafka, An” (Borges), 97 animal spirits, 97–98, 104–105 Anteparadise (Zurita), 112, 113 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 74, 79, 90, 223 Aparicio, Frances, x, 169 Appalachia, 17–18, 122, 123, 147, 204; Appalachian and Latino identities, 148–149, 154; corporate control of land and mineral resources in, 128–129; and the “culture of poverty” 135; deindustrialization of northern Appalachia, 135; depictions of, 135; as an idea, 125; ideological construction of, 125–126; immigration to, 151; as an internal colony, 157; Latino population of, 129, 151; as a “national sacrifice zone,” 128; as a “territory of images,” 127; as a “territory of the mind,” 241n3. See also Appalachian Latino literature/poetry Appalachia (J. A. Williams), 122 Appalachian Latino literature/poetry, 17, 124, 143–145; literary geographies of, 151–152; as a practice rather than a representation of Latino identity, 152–153 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), 126, 127, 149 “Apropos of Nothing” (Parra), 239n9 Aragón, Francisco, 19, 89, 144, 222–223, 229, 242n20 268 • Index Arias, Santa, 14, 149 Aridjis, Homero, 45 Arizona, punitive immigration and education laws of, xii–xiii, 65–66, 68, 79, 149, 156 “Ars Poetica” (E. Pérez), 223 Autobiography of So-and-so: Poems in Prose (Kilwein Guevara), 123, 129, 130, 133–134, 138; epigraph of, 132 Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 240n22, 241n14 Badiou, Alain, 26, 58–59, 67–68, 69, 85, 210; on the importance of proper names in revolutionary politics, 48 Bachelard, Gaston, 59; on the poetics of cellar and garret, 210–211 Baldrich, Juan José, 243n14 Banana Republic, xi, 127, 185–186 Bañuelos, Juan, 45–46, 190, 237n22, 237n25 Benjamin, Walter, 2, 92, 115, 217 Berger, John, 29, 38 Berman, Sandra, 204 Between Parentheses (Bolaño), 96 Beverley, John, 7; on radical heterogeneity, 153; on right-wing ascendancy, 118 Blanchot, Maurice, 96, 104, 112; on disaster, 17, 92, 99, 101, 217, 219, 225, 226; on the “limits of writing,” 93, 101 Blanco, José Joaquín, 49–50 Bless Me Ultima (Anaya), 227 Bogotá, xi, 150; as a “starry bowl,” 136, 140 Bolaño, Roberto, 17, 18–19, 91, 107, 111, 133, 190; admiration of for Cardenal, 240n18; attitude of toward Chile, 240n16; on the defeat of his “generation,” 205; dismissal of the benefits of state citizenship by, 95; distrust of the fetishization of the lost nation, 164; imprisonment of, 240n12; “library-as-nation” concept of, 94, 96–106, 120, 172; on narrative and form, 92–93; notoriety of, 239n10; on the “nowhere/ somewhere” pairing, 172–173; poetics of, 206, 210; on poetry as “braver than anyone,” 101; representations of Chile as idea and haunted place, 101–102; romantic tropes of dream and nightmare in his poetry, 93, 100, 103, 105; on tensions between forms, 93; transition from Chilean to Latin American subjectivity in his work, 106; on domestic space...

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