I. Writing, desire, and transference
1. Another writing lesson: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and the chief of the Nambikwara
2. Traveling literature, traveling theory: imaginary encounters between East and West
3. Restriction and mobility: desire, transference, and the cultural imaginary
II. Aannibals, children, and aliens
4. The melancholic cannibal: Juan José Saer's The witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar
5. War children in a global world: Richard Powers's Operation wandering soul
6. Ethnographies of the future: personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis
III. Coda
Cosmographical meditations on the inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The lost ones
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