Latinamericanism and the Novel queries how the Latin American novel strove to combine political struggle and critical speculation in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. Through close readings of Rosario Castellanos's The Book of Lamentations, Juan Carlos Onetti's The Shipyard, and Jorge Amado's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, this Element argues that the effort to register the dialectical patterns of peripheral capitalist sociality led the Latin American novel to increasingly partake in the utopian figuration of possibility. Exploring the peculiar coalition between the Latinamericanist concerns of the 1960s and the utopian dimensionality of the novel form, the three studies gathered in this Element show how the Latin American novel cultivated a politics of solidarity with the future.