Bolanos / Verdesio Colonialism Past and Present

Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8976-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Critiques lingering manifestations of colonialism in contemporary Latin American scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolanos, Alvaro Felix

Verdesio, Gustavo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism.
Gustavo Verdesio

2. On the issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America today.
Alvaro Lelix Bolanos

3. Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History.
Jose Rabasa

4. Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codice Mendoza.
Cora Lagos

5. Narrating Colonial Interventions: Dom Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada.
Luis Fernando Restrepo

6. (Post-)colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics.
Antony Higgins

7. Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas.
Stacey Schlau

8. Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano.
Mariselle Melendez

9. The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry, and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru.
Jose Antonio Mazzotti

11. History and Plunder in El Carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America.
Alvaro Felix Bolanos

10. The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan Jose Saei and Their Critics.
Gustavo Verdersio

Afterword
Sara Castro-Klaren

Über Autor(innen)

Alvaro Félix Bolaños is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida and the author of Barbarie y canibalismo en la retórica colonial: los indios pijaos de Fray Pedro Simón. Gustavo Verdesio is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of La invención del Uruguay: La entrada del territorio y sus habitantes a la cultura occidental.