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Book SynopsisInsisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, this title features essays that give insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of 18th century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia.
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After Spanish Rule occupies the ground between Latin American exceptionalism and the so-called universalism of postcolonial studies. These essays enrich the field of postcolonial studies by bringing Latin American materials within its purview.”—Gyan Prakash, editor of
After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial DisplacementsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Foreword / Shahid Amin xi
1. Escritura: On Imagining/Writing Postcolonial Histories
Point and Counterpoint / Andrés Guerrero 3
After Spanish Rule: Writing Another After / Mark Thurner 12
Essaying the History of National Images / Maricio Tenorio Trillo 58
2. Poetica: Knowledges, Nations, Histories
Postcolonialism
avante la lettre? Travelers and Clerics in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish America / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 89
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Aquel laberinto de oficinas": Ways of Knowing Empire in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spain / Javier Morillo-Alicea 111
Peruvian Genealogies of History and Nation / Mark Thurner 141
Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivia Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro's Carnival / Thomas A. Abercrombie 176
3. Politica: Governmentalities, States, Subjects
Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809–1815 / Marixa Lasso 223
Postcolonialism as Self-Fulfilled Prophecy? Electoral Politics in Oaxaca, 1814–1828 / Peter Guardino 248
The Administration of Dominated Populations under a Regime of Customary Citizenship: The Case of Postcolonial Ecuador / Andrés Guerrero 272
Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Colombia / Joanne Rappaport 310
Contributors 347
Index 349
