Being in common : nation subject and community in Latin American literature and culture The interrupted quest : rethinking nation subject and community in Latin American literature and culture Writing place names : travel and theory in Alejo Carpentiers Los pasos perdidos Image history tradition : Ezequiel Martínez Estradas alter nations On being Mexican for example : Octavio Paz and the dialectics of universality Borges : on reading translation and the impossibility of naming.