Introduction: Latin Americanism, Francophone studies, and identity thinking -- Double articulation and wishful thinking -- José Lezama Lima and the gnosis of American expression -- Édouard Glissant's archipelic thought and second nature -- Excursus: poetics and place from autochthony to globality -- Mikilistes and Modernistas in Paris: consuming modernity's capital -- Minor truths: Menchú and Ouologuem in the multicultural metropolis -- Afterword: Commitment to the negative