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A companion to Latin American literature and culture
Publisher
Blackwell
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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From the Book
Introduction / Sara Castro-Klaren
Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking / Walter D. Mignolo
Pt. I. Coloniality
1. Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge / Gustavo Verdesio
2. Writing Violence / Jose Rabasa
3. Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture / Carlos M. Lopez
4. Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico / Rocio Cortes
5. Memory and "Writing" in the Andes / Sara Castro-Klaren
6. Writing the Andes / Sara Castro-Klaren
7. Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America / Lucia Helena Costigan
8. Violence in the Land of the Musica: Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero / Alvaro Felix Bolanos
9. Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts / Lisa DeLeonardis
10. History of a Phantom / Francisco A. Ortega
11. Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches / Kathryn Joy McKnight
Pt. II. Transformations
12. Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anticolonialism and Protonationalism in Late Colonial Peru / Peter Elmore
13. Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848 / Franklin W. Knight
14. Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil / Leila Gomez
15. Haitian Revolution / Sibylle Fischer
Pt. III. Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates
16. Gaucho and the Gauchesca / Abril Trigo
17. Andres Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood / Nicolas Shumway
18. Reading National Subjects / Juan Poblete
19. For Love and Money: Of Potboilers and Precautions / Doris Sommer
Pt. IV. Uncertain Modernities
20. Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire / Fernando Degiovanni
21. Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic / Todd S. Garth
22. Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts / Horacio Legras
23. Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo Amanta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla / Javier Sanjines C.
24. Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariategui, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Tarsila do Amaral, Cesar Vallejo / Fernando J. Rosenberg
25. Latin American Poetry / Stephen M. Hart
26. Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernandez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernandez / Adriana J. Bergero
27. Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo / Adriana Michele Campos Johnson
28. "Boom" of Spanish-American Fiction and the 1960s Revolutions (1958-75) / Gerald Martin
29. Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Antonio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference / Elizabeth A. Marchant
30. Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejon, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit / Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant
31. Caribbean Philosophy / Edouard Glissant
Pt. V. Global and Local Perspectives
32. Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture / Elizabeth Monasterios P.
33. Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority / John Beverley
34. Affectivity beyond "Bare Life": On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film / Hermann Herlinghaus
35. Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil / Ileana Rodriguez
36. Post-Utopian Imaginaries: Narrating Uncertainty / Silvia G. Kurlat Ares
37. Cultural Modalities and Cross-Cultural Connections: Rock across Class and Ethnic Identities / Gastavo Verdesiu ̃
38. Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City's Visual Economy / Freya Schiuy.
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Castro-Klaren, Sara editor
Castro-Klarén, Sara
Credo Reference (Firm) distributor
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9781405128063
9781119692607
9781803165295
9781119692607
9781803165295
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