Colonialism past and present : reading and writing about colonial Latin America today / edited by Alvaro Félix Bolaños and Gustavo Verdesio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bolaños, Alvaro Félix, 1955-

Verdesio, Gustavo.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American literature.

Social aspects.

History.

Historiography.

Latin America--Civilization.

Latin America.

Civilization.

Latin America--History--To 1830--Historiography.

Latin America--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Latin America--In literature.

Spanish American literature--Social aspects.

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

vii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

Colonialism now and then: colonial Latin American studies in the light of the predicament of Latin Americanism / Gustavo Verdesio

On the issues of academic colonization and responsibility with reading and writing about colonial Latin America today / Alvaro Félix Bolaños

Pre-Columbian pasts and Indian presents in Mexican history / José Rabasa

Confronting imaginations: towards an alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza / Cora Lagos

Narrating colonial interventions: Don Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmequé in the new kingdom of Granada / Luis Fernando Restrepo

(Post-)colonial sublime: order and indeterminacy in eighteenth-century Spanish American poetics and aesthetics / Antony Higgins

Gendered crime and punishment in New Spain: inquisitional cases against Ilusas / Stacey Schlau

Representing gender, deviance, and heterogeneity in the eighteenth-century Peruvian newspaper Mercurio Peruano / Mariselle Meléndez

The dragon and the seashell: British corsairs, epic poetry and Creole nation in viceregal Peru / José Antonio Mazzotti

History and plunder in El carnero: writing, among Indians, a history of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in colonial Spanish America / Alvaro Félix Bolaños

The literary appropriation of the American landscape: the historical novels of Abel Posse and Juan José Saer and their critics / Gustavo Verdesio

Afterword: "Writing with his thumb in the air": coloniality, past and present / Sara Castro-Klarén.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791451453

0791451461

OCLC:

47161913