Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. This book joins current debates over postmodernity and globalization and their application to Latin American and U.S. Latino questions. The essays and art work presented trace Latin America's space and supposed "peripheral place" in a post-Cold War "New World Order" where controlled democratization and neo-liberal policies highlight growing trends of ungovernability and [dis]order. The contributors seek to show how given Latin American societies and groups have dealt with particular, uneven and contradictory modes and strains of modernization and hybridization, integration and fragmentation in an age dominated by transnational processes; they critique older methods and assumptions to uncover new approaches to questions of "third world" and specifically Latin American cultural trends and developments.