The book that we present contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Latin American Cultural Studies, sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Pittsburgh. It includes almost all revised versions of the papers presented in addition to the remarks of the commentators and moderators of the sessions: Gabriel Giorgi, Jes s Jambrina, Marcia Ochoa, Jos Quiroga and Laura Guti rrez. These remarks...