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Front matter

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Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction

1: Uncanny Visions: Rubén Darío, Julio Cortázar, and Salvador Elizondo

2: Family Portraits: Horacio Quiroga, Juan Rulfo, Silvina Ocampo, and Virgilio Pinera

Index

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book was long in the making, and I owe a debt of gratitude to many people and many institutions. The research project was supported by grants from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico) and a Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Research trips were made possible through the generous support of the Tinker Travel Grant, the Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant, the Doolittle Fellowship, and the Humanities Travel Grant, all from the University of Chicago, as well as Internal Research Grants from the University of Victoria. My thanks go to the directors and staff of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, the Biblioteca Nacional at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, and the Biblioteca Nacional and Hemeroteca, the Biblioteca del Congreso, and the Biblioteca Tornquist in Buenos Aires. To these agencies and institutions, my acknowledgement for the invaluable privilege of engaging in serious and enjoyable academic work.

Over the years, I have profited from the guidance, scholarship, and wisdom of professors, writers, and artists in courses and conferences. In Mexico, Rosa Beltrán, Flora Botton, Horacio Costa, Carlos Pereda, Luz Aurora Pimentel and Pablo Soler Frost; in the United States, Alicia Borinsky, Francoise Meltzer, W. J. T. Mitchell, Mario Santana, Joel Snyder, and Yuri Tsivian; in Argentina, Abel Alexander, Sara Facio, Ana María Shua, and Susana Zanetti; and in Canada, my colleagues at the University of Victoria, Lloyd Howard and Pablo Restrepo-Gautier.

I want to acknowledge the photographer Alicia Sanguineti for allowing me to usethe portrait of Silvina Ocampo by the late Alicia D'Amico, and Ezequiel and Gonzalo Martínez, from the Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez, for the use of the photograph of their father with Juan Domingo Perón.

I had the good fortune of meeting the late Tomás Eloy Martínez, as well as the late Salvador Elizondo, to whom I am grateful for their teachings in person and in writing.

To my friends, many of them now fellow colleagues, my thanks for the rich conversations we have been engaged in over the years: Irene Artigas, Yael Bitrán Goren, Flavia Cesarino Costa, Josefina Ghiglino, Susana González Aktories, Alejandra González Aktories, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Georg Leidenberger, Marcos Natali, Alberto Nulman, Rosa Sarabia, Alisú Schoua-Glusberg, Michael Schuessler, Ana María Serna, and Alvaro Vázquez Mantecón. My thanks to Susan Abrill, for the exchange of ideas and her proofreading over the years; to the editors of my scholarly contributions, Mary Beth Tierny-Tello, David William Foster, Dawne McCance, and Jesús Pérez-Magallón; and to the editors of the University of Calgary Press, Peter Enman, Karen Buttner, Melina Cusano, and the Latin American Series editor, Hendrik Kraay. Thanks also to Alison Jacques for copyediting the text, and to Reader D, for her thorough reading of the manuscript and her many useful suggestions.

I want to acknowledge in particular Lois Parkinson Zamora and Marcy Schwartz for their professional and personal support over the years. Last, a very special thanks to Patrick O'Connor, my former PhD advisor, a wise, knowledgeable, and kind person—a true mentor—without whom this scholarly project would not have come to fruition.

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