Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Reader with the book in his hand
  • From serf to self : The Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano
  • The Theatrics of reading : Body and book in Victoria Ocampo
  • Childhood and exile : The Cuban paradise of the countess of Merlin
  • A school for life : Miguel Canés's Juvenilia
  • The Search for utopia : Picón Salas looks forward to the past
  • A game of cutouts : Norah Lange's Cuadernos de infancia
  • Autobiography as history : A statue for posterity
  • Shrines and labyrinths : A place to remember
  • First memories, first myths : Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo