Alfred J. Lopez is Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction Posts and Pasts
Chapter One
¿The Other! The Other!¿: Conrad,Wilson Harris, and the Postcolonial ¿Threshold of Capacity¿
Chapter Two
Specters of the Nation: Resistance, Criollismo, and the Ambivalence of the ¿Neo-¿
Chapter Three
Whiteness and the Colonial Unconscious
Chapter Four
¿Toward a New Humanism. . . .¿: Fanon, Hegel, and the Crisis of Mastery
Chapter Five
Reason, ¿the Native,¿ and Desire: A Theory of ¿Magical Realism¿
Conclusion
Magic, ¿Realism,¿ and the ¿Post-¿
Notes
Biblography
Index