附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index.
pt. 1. Myth as a historical mode : Lo real maravilloso americano -- Lo real maravilloso in Caribbean fiction -- The folk imagination and history : El reino de este mundo, The secret ladder, and Le quatrième siècle -- pt. 2. The problematic quest for origins -- The myth of El Dorado : Los pasos perdidos and Palace of the peacock -- pt. 3. Myth and history : the dialectics of culture -- History as mythic discourse : El siglo de las luces, Tumatumari, and La case du commandeur -- The poetics of identity and difference : Black Marsden and Concierto barroco.
