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Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and culture

In the newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American culture and literature by scholars at the cutting edge of their respective fields. The included essayswhether they''re written from the perspective of historiography, affect theory, decolonial approaches, or human rightsintroduce readers to topics like gaucho literature, postcolonial writing in the Andes, and baroque art while pointing to future work on the issues raised.

This work engages with anthropology, history, individual memory, testimonio, and environmental studies. It also explores:

  • A thorough introduction to topics of coloniality, including the mapping of the pre-Columbian Americas and colonial religiosity
  • Comprehensive explorations of the emergence of national co

    Table of Contents

    Notes on Contributors xi

    Editor’s Acknowledgments xviii

    CODA. Companion 2022: As the World Turns… 1
    Sara Castro-Klaren

    Second Thoughts on the Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Advent of Decolonial Thinking 9
    Walter D. Mignolo

    Part I Coloniality 19

    1 Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 21
    Gustavo Verdesio

    2 Writing Violence 37
    José Rabasa

    3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 56
    Carlos M. López

    4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 74
    Rocío Cortés Copyrighted Material

    5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes 95
    Sara Castro-Klaren

    6 Writing the Andes 106
    Sara Castro-Klaren

    7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 126
    Lúcia Helena Costigan

    8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile’s
    El carnero 135
    Álvaro Félix Bolaños

    9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 150
    Lisa DeLeonardis

    10 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 170
    Kathryn Joy McKnight

    Part II Transformations 183

    11 Visual Representations of Tupac Amaru II 185
    Peter Elmore

    12 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 187
    Franklin W. Knight

    13 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge, Space, and Time in Mexico and South America 206
    Leila Gómez

    14 Slave Culture in Brazil, 1500s–1888 220
    Hendrik Kraay

    15 The Haitian Revolution 234
    Sibylle Fischer

    Part III the Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 249

    16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 251
    Abril Trigo

    17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood 265
    Nicolas Shumway

    18 Reading National Subjects 281
    Juan Poblete

    19 The Muisca beyond Melancholy: Literature, Art, and the Colombian State 305
    Luis Fernando Restrepo

    Part IV Uncertain Modernities 323

    20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire 325
    Fernando Degiovanni

    21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 343
    Todd S. Garth

    22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts 353
    Horacio Legras

    23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla 371
    Javier Sanjinés C.

    24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 384
    Fernando J. Rosenberg

    25 Latin American Poetry 399
    Stephen M. Hart

    26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández 415
    Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth

    27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 434
    Adriana Michèle Campos Johnson

    28 Alterity and Absence Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector 451
    Elizabeth A. Marchant

    29 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit 464
    Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant

    30 Caribbean Philosophy 486
    Edouard Glissant

    Part V Global and Local Perspectives 505

    31 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture 507
    Elizabeth Monasterios Pérez

    32 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority 524
    John Beverley

    33 Affectivity beyond “Bare Life”: On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film 537
    Hermann Herlinghaus

    34 Photography in Latin America: The Case for Another Photography 555
    Jorge Coronado

    35 Rock and Pop across Cultural Boundaries: The Story of a Tension between Mimicry and Autochthony 572
    Gustavo Verdesio

    36 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City’s Visual Economy Revisited 584
    Freya Schiwy

    37 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil 601
    Ileana Rodríguez

    Part VI Uncharted Waters 619

    38 Plants, People, and the Ecological Imagination in Latin America 621
    Lesley Wylie

    39 Atmospheres of the Marvelous: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World 634
    Jeronimo Arellano

    40 The Indigenous “Contact Film” and Its Afterlives in Latin American Cinema 646
    Gustavo Furtado

    41 Femicide and Feminist Performance 658
    Debra A. Castillo

    42 Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture 671
    Matthew Bush

    43 From Human Rights to Rights beyond the Human 685
    Fernando J. Rosenberg

    44 Imagining Amazonia Cartographically 699
    Amanda M. Smith

    45 The Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects 714
    Juan G. Ramos

    46 Wars over Water: Toward an Eco-Perspectivist Subaltern Ecology 728
    Orlando Betancor

    Index 743

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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and culture

      In the newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American culture and literature by scholars at the cutting edge of their respective fields. The included essayswhether they''re written from the perspective of historiography, affect theory, decolonial approaches, or human rightsintroduce readers to topics like gaucho literature, postcolonial writing in the Andes, and baroque art while pointing to future work on the issues raised.

      This work engages with anthropology, history, individual memory, testimonio, and environmental studies. It also explores:

      • A thorough introduction to topics of coloniality, including the mapping of the pre-Columbian Americas and colonial religiosity
      • Comprehensive explorations of the emergence of national co

        Table of Contents

        Notes on Contributors xi

        Editor’s Acknowledgments xviii

        CODA. Companion 2022: As the World Turns… 1
        Sara Castro-Klaren

        Second Thoughts on the Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Advent of Decolonial Thinking 9
        Walter D. Mignolo

        Part I Coloniality 19

        1 Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 21
        Gustavo Verdesio

        2 Writing Violence 37
        José Rabasa

        3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 56
        Carlos M. López

        4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 74
        Rocío Cortés Copyrighted Material

        5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes 95
        Sara Castro-Klaren

        6 Writing the Andes 106
        Sara Castro-Klaren

        7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 126
        Lúcia Helena Costigan

        8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile’s
        El carnero 135
        Álvaro Félix Bolaños

        9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 150
        Lisa DeLeonardis

        10 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 170
        Kathryn Joy McKnight

        Part II Transformations 183

        11 Visual Representations of Tupac Amaru II 185
        Peter Elmore

        12 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 187
        Franklin W. Knight

        13 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge, Space, and Time in Mexico and South America 206
        Leila Gómez

        14 Slave Culture in Brazil, 1500s–1888 220
        Hendrik Kraay

        15 The Haitian Revolution 234
        Sibylle Fischer

        Part III the Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 249

        16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 251
        Abril Trigo

        17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood 265
        Nicolas Shumway

        18 Reading National Subjects 281
        Juan Poblete

        19 The Muisca beyond Melancholy: Literature, Art, and the Colombian State 305
        Luis Fernando Restrepo

        Part IV Uncertain Modernities 323

        20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire 325
        Fernando Degiovanni

        21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 343
        Todd S. Garth

        22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts 353
        Horacio Legras

        23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla 371
        Javier Sanjinés C.

        24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 384
        Fernando J. Rosenberg

        25 Latin American Poetry 399
        Stephen M. Hart

        26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández 415
        Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth

        27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 434
        Adriana Michèle Campos Johnson

        28 Alterity and Absence Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector 451
        Elizabeth A. Marchant

        29 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit 464
        Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant

        30 Caribbean Philosophy 486
        Edouard Glissant

        Part V Global and Local Perspectives 505

        31 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture 507
        Elizabeth Monasterios Pérez

        32 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority 524
        John Beverley

        33 Affectivity beyond “Bare Life”: On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film 537
        Hermann Herlinghaus

        34 Photography in Latin America: The Case for Another Photography 555
        Jorge Coronado

        35 Rock and Pop across Cultural Boundaries: The Story of a Tension between Mimicry and Autochthony 572
        Gustavo Verdesio

        36 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City’s Visual Economy Revisited 584
        Freya Schiwy

        37 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil 601
        Ileana Rodríguez

        Part VI Uncharted Waters 619

        38 Plants, People, and the Ecological Imagination in Latin America 621
        Lesley Wylie

        39 Atmospheres of the Marvelous: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World 634
        Jeronimo Arellano

        40 The Indigenous “Contact Film” and Its Afterlives in Latin American Cinema 646
        Gustavo Furtado

        41 Femicide and Feminist Performance 658
        Debra A. Castillo

        42 Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture 671
        Matthew Bush

        43 From Human Rights to Rights beyond the Human 685
        Fernando J. Rosenberg

        44 Imagining Amazonia Cartographically 699
        Amanda M. Smith

        45 The Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects 714
        Juan G. Ramos

        46 Wars over Water: Toward an Eco-Perspectivist Subaltern Ecology 728
        Orlando Betancor

        Index 743

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