City fictions: language, body, and Spanish American urban space

Introduction

By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de México" series

Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cortázar's short stories

Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos

Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica and Vaca sagrada

The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsiváis's Los rituales del caos

Conclusion.