Introduction. See(k)ing power / framing power in selected works of Jose Donoso / Sharon Magnarelli -- Monuments and scribes: el hablador addresses ethnography / Sara Castro-Klaren -- Delegitimizing carnival of el otono del patriarca / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego -- Magus, masque, and the machinations of authority: Cortazar at play -- Peter Standish -- Politicizing myth and absence: from Macedonio Fernandez to Augusto Roa Bastos -- Todd S. Garth -- Underlying currents of "Caciquismo" in the marratives of Juan Rulfo / Jose Carlos Gonzalez Boixo -- Cabrera infante's undertow / Terry J. Peavler -- Of power and virgins: Alejandra Pizarnik's la condesa sangrienta / David William Foster -- Politics of "Wargasm": sexuality, domination and female subversion in Luisa Valenzuela's Cambio de Armas / Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal.