Table of Contents Introduction: A Short Biography 1. The Politics of Style: Literature and Human Rights 2. Resistance: A Critique of Post-colonial Reason 3. Through the Looking Glass: Testimonial, Memory, and Narrative 4. Imagining Elsewhere as Here: Alternative Communities 5. Dissonant Histories and the Re-invention of the Americas 6. Borderlands: Loss, Desire, Hope 7. Conclusion: Writing the Public Sphere