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• From where to speak? Latin American postmodern/postcolonial positionalities

  Author:Fernando de ToroFrom:World Literature Today (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 19955,252 words Article Latin American literature and philosophy are basically postmodernist and it may have been so even before this literary and philosphical trend achieved recognition. In the region, intellectuals belong to either the school...

• Borges/Derrida/Foucault: Pharmakeus/Heterotopia or Beyond Literature (‘hors-littérature’); Writing, Phantoms, Simulacra, Masks, the Carnival and … Atlön/Tlön, Ykva/Uqbar, Hlaer, Jangr, Hrön(n)/Hrönir, Ur and Other Figures

  Editors:de Toro and Fernando de ToroFrom: Jorge Luis Borges: Thought and Knowledge in the XXth Century

  199912,369 words Critical essay [(essay date 1999) In the following essay, de Toro addresses what he calls “the question of the description and formulation of Borges’s absence in writing through writing.” He relates that question to the attempt by the...

• Textual Space and the Art of Chinese Gardening in Borges’ ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’

  Editors:Alfonso de Toro and Fernando de ToroFrom: Jorge Luis Borges: Thought and Knowledge in the XXth Century

  199918,918 words Critical essay [(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Echavarría relates the spatial aspects of the story “The Garden of Forking Paths” to ideas about gardening within the Chinese tradition, noting the prevalence of references to...