A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
2. Edition June 2022
768 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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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 essays--whether they're written from the perspective of historiography, affect theory, decolonial approaches, or human rights--introduce 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 communities in New Imperial coordinates, including discussions of the Muisca and Mayan cultures
* Practical discussions of global and local perspectives in Latin American literature, including explorations of Latin American photography and cultural modalities and cross-cultural connections
* In-depth examinations of uncharted topics in Latin American literature and culture, including discussions of femicide and feminist performances and eco-perspectives
Perfect for students in undergraduate and graduate courses tackling Latin American literature and culture topics, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Second Edition will also earn a place in the libraries of members of the general public and PhD students interested in Latin American literature and culture.
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
