A companion to Latin American literature and culture

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.