Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky UnruhDiana TaylorFrancine MasielloDaniel BalderstonSylvia MolloyRegina HarrisonSara Castro-KlarénAndrés Di TellaMaría Rosa Olivera-WilliamsRubén GalloMichael J. LazzaraJill LaneLeslie BayersSandra Messinger CypessNelly RichardIdelber AvelarVicky UnruhRolf Abderhalden CortésVictoria LanglandArturo AriasDiamela EltitSandra Lorenzano

Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Telling Ruins	p. 1
Part 1 What Are We Doing Here?: Ruins, Performance, Meditation
1 Performing Ruins	p. 13
2 Scribbling on the Wreck	p. 27
3 "Oh tiempo tus pirámides": Ruins in Borges	p. 39
Part 2 Whose Ruins?: Ownership and Cross-Cultural Mappings
4 Translating Ruins: An American Parable	p. 51
5 Machu Picchu Recycled	p. 63
6 The Ruins of the Present: Cuzco Evoked	p. 77
7 Ruins in the Desert: Field Notes by a Filmmaker	p. 87
8 The Twentieth Century as Ruin: Tango and Historical Memory	p. 95
9 Modernist Ruins: The Case Study of Tlatelolco	p. 107
Part 3 The Ruins of Fragile Ceasefires: Scenes of Loss and Memory
10 Pinochet's Cadaver as Ruin and Palimpsest	p. 121
11 Spatial Truth and Reconciliation: Peru, 2003-2004	p. 135
12 "Words of the Dead": Ruins, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Ayacucho	p. 147
13 Tlatelolco: From Ruins to Poetry	p. 163
14 Sites of Memory, Emptying Remembrance	p. 175
15 History, Neurosis, and Subjectivity: Gustavo Ferreyra's Rewriting of Neoliberal Ruins	p. 183
Part 4 Ordinary People: Inhabited Ruins, Precarious Survival
16 All in a Day's Work: Ruins Dwellers in Havana	p. 197
17 Witness to the Ruins: An Artist's Testimony	p. 211
18 Coming Home to Praia de Flamengo: The Once and Future National Student Union Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	p. 219
19 Fernando Vallejo's Ruinous Heterotopias: The Queer Subject in Latin America's Urban Spaces	p. 229
20 Charges and Discharges	p. 241
21 Angels among Ruins	p. 249
Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 267