Latin Ameri- can "magical realists," we also view postmodern television shows (David Letterman for the late-night crowd), eat postmodern food ("gourmet" macaroni- and-cheese served on microwaveable Fiestaware), sport postmodern clothes, and even think postmodern thoughts.
For all that, few of us know what the term really means, while others suspect, along with a Spy magazine writer, that it has "evolved into a sort of buzzword that people tack onto sentences when they're...