Introduction : bordering can(n)ons : postnational satire in the United States and Mexico -- Modernity versus its national demons : la region mas transparente -- Innocents abroad and at home : the profane history of American modernity in V -- La muerte de Artemio Cruz and the agonic Mexican nation -- The Crying of Lot 49 and the nationalist colonization of the unconscious -- Epidermic metamorphosis? Shedding the nation in Cambio de piel -- Enlightened nationalists : the conquest rides again in La Campana -- Surveying American exceptionalism in Mason & Dixon -- Conclusion : beyond the nation
