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The Survival of Theory and the Surviving Fictions of Latin America

As a culture that emerges from a protracted colonial past, Latin America's is a tradition of accommodation that has assimilated numerous cultural discourses projected upon it. The problematics of literary language and literary theory thus stand out starkly here, and it is from this vantage point that I should like to approach the question of theory and its survivability in the context of an overtly problematical literary tradition. To speak of Latin America in terms of fiction and literary theory amounts to a tautology of sorts. I shall home back on this concomitant, but first I must wander from my hypothesis somewhat in what might appear to be a digression. In this peregrinatio I shall be retracing the ground we are wont to impute, cavalierly at times, to theory, history, representation, and ethics. My sally, both speculative and specular, aims to be more pleading than chastening, more conciliatory gesture than indictment. Participation ultimately requires many parts, and my own must of necessity be partial. By partiality we should understand both a predicament of incompleteness and of unavoidable bias. A bias is by definition indispensable to any fabric and to any fabrication. Texture is what must save even the most unidimensional monolith, and circumspection in the face of that inevitability is ultimately the redeeming grace of even the most monadic doxology, lest the lesson fall into orthodoxy and specula-