A companion to Latin American literature and culture / edited by Sara Castro-Klaren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castro-Klarén, Sara.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 53.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Latin America--Intellectual life.

Latin America.

Intellectual life.

Latin America--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xix, 688 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2008.

Summary:

Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays and poetry, enabling the reader to engage with the esteemed but demanding literature of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Diamela Eltit. Individual chapters are dedicated to key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders, as in the cases of Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, Csar Vallejo, and Gabriel Garca Mrquez. Contributors also discuss form and genre, architecture, music and film. This Companion provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading.

Contents:

Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking / Walter D. Mignolo 12

Part I Coloniality 33

1 Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge / Gustavo Verdesio 35

2 Writing Violence / Jose Rabasa 49

3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture / Carlos M. Lopez 68

4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico / Rocio Cortes 86

5 Memory and "Writing" in the Andes / Sara Castro-Klaren 106

6 Writing the Andes / Sara Castro-Klaren 117

7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America / Lucia Helena Costigan 137

8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero / Alvaro Felix Bolanos 146

9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts / Lisa DeLeonardis 161

10 History of a Phantom / Francisco A. Ortega 182

11 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches / Kathryn Joy McKnight 197

Part II Transformations 211

12 The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anticolonialism and Protonationalism in Late Colonial Peru / Peter Elmore 213

13 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848 / Franklin W. Knight 228

14 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil / Leila Gomez 247

15 The Haitian Revolution / Sibylle Fischer 262

Part III The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 277

16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca / Abril Trigo 279

17 Andres Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood / Nicolas Shumway 293

18 Reading National Subjects / Juan Poblete 309

19 For Love and Money: Of Potboilers and Precautions / Doris Sommer 333

Part IV Uncertain Modernities 349

20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire / Fernando Degiovanni 351

21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic / Todd S. Garth 369

22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts / Horacio Legras 379

23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla / Javier Sanjines C. 397

24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariategui, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Tarsila do Amaral, Cesar Vallejo / Fernando J. Rosenberg 410

25 Latin American Poetry / Stephen M. Hart 426

26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernandez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernandez / Adriana J. Bergero, Todd S. Garth 442

27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo / Adriana Michele Campos Johnson 461

28 The "Boom" of Spanish-American Fiction and the 1960s Revolutions (1958-75) / Gerald Martin 478

29 Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Antonio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference / Elizabeth A. Marchant 495

30 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejon, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit / Adriana J. Bergero, Elizabeth A. Marchant 509

31 Caribbean Philosophy / Edouard Glissant 531

Part V Global and Local Perspectives 551

32 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture / Elizabeth Monasterios P. 553

33 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority / John Beverley 571

34 Affectivity beyond "Bare Life": On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film / Hermann Herlinghaus 584

35 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil / Ileana Rodriguez 602

36 Post-Utopian Imaginaries: Narrating Uncertainty / Silvia G. Kurlat Ares 620

37 Cultural Modalities and Cross-Cultural Connections: Rock across Class and Ethnic Identities / Gustavo Verdesio 636

38 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City's Visual Economy / Freya Schiwy 647.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405128063

1405128062

OCLC:

175286441

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