A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture by Castro-Klaren, Sara -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Title page Copyright page Dedication Notes on Contributors Editor’s Acknowledgments Acknowledgments to Sources Introduction Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking

I II III

PART I: Coloniality

1 Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 2 Writing Violence

Writing that Discovers Writing that Conquers Writing that Converts Writing Pictograms Epilogue: Ignorantiam Invincibilem

3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture

The Evangelizing Period Modernity and “Ladinization” Globalization versus Mayan Resurgence

4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico

The Colonial Enterprise of Conversion through Education The Colegio’s Students and Textual Productions The Struggles of the Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco Evangelization and Its Consequences: A “Spiritual Conquest”? The Diffusion of Writing and the Written outside the Colegio Letters of Appeal The Emergence of an Intellectual Circle on Indigenous Matters Native and Mestizo Intellectuals: The End of Sixteenth Century and the First Half of the Seventeenth Century The Legacy of the Colegio and the Jesuit Circle

5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes 6 Writing the Andes 7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America

The Jesuits and Baroque Culture in Brazil Neoclassicism, Arcadianism, and the Arcadias

8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero

El carnero as a Book of Brazen Tales Juan Rodríguez Freile: A Proud Cristiano Viejo in a Spanish Colony The Violent Land of El carnero Rodríguez Freile’s Opportunity as A Farmer El carnero, Its Commentators and the Indigenous Subject

9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts

Introduction Baroque Visual Arts in Their Sociopolitical Context Cathedral and Parroquia The Baroque Retablo The Imagineros of Quito The Pictorial Baroque The Art of Pilgrimage

10 History of a Phantom

Preamble Returns Modernity, Coloniality, Globality The Baroque: That Which Remains to be Thought

11 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches

Nuns and other Religious Women and their Communities Heretics: Enemies of the Faith or of the Colonial Political Project? Witches: Ritual Specialists and their Engagement of Natural and Supernatural Powers Connections and Conclusions

PART II: Transformations

12 The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anticolonialism and Protonationalism in Late Colonial Peru 13 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848

Changes at the Macro Level Caribbean Political Changes Changes in Society Caribbean Intellectual Life The Commercial Revolution Final Observations

14 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil

Introduction Science and Imperial Power: Relative Autonomy America in the Spatial and Temporal Maps of the Enlightenment Conclusion: The Nomothètes of Science

15 The Haitian Revolution

I II

PART III: The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates

16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca

Gauchos and Caudillos The Leathern Age The Era of the Patriadas The Gauchesca Poetry The Gauchesca Cycle Fading Out in the City The Gaucho in the National Imaginary

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

Andrés Bello (1781–1865) Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811–88) Manuel González Prada, 1844–1918 Teresa de la Parra (1890–1936)

18 Reading National Subjects

The Argument Nation and Representation I Nation and Representation II The Civil Sphere I: Imagining the Nation in Newspapers and Books The Civil Sphere II: Imagining the Nation in Letters, Albums and Tertulias The State Sphere and Governmentality Conclusion: Reading, Subjectivity, and Power

19 For Love and Money: Of Potboilers and Precautions

Imagined Sexualities and Historical Communities Some Beg to Differ

PART IV: Uncertain Modernities

20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire

French Latin Americanism and Spanish Academicism Pan-Americanism and Cultural Monumentalism The End of the Empire and the Rise of Spanish-American Literature as a Field of Study Challenging Institutionalized Philology

21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts

Introduction 1910–20: Origins Bad Beginnings Siqueiros and the Elaboration of a Muralist Avant-Garde Rivera and the Representation of the People Peoplehood and the Rise of National Ethnography An Overdetermined History José Clemente Orozco Muralism and the Basic Question of Western Art

23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla

Arguedas and Positivist-Liberal Discourse Tamayo, Sabogal, and the Discourse on the Autochthonous Peruvian Indigenismo and the Avant-Gardes Bonfil Batalla’s Anti-Colonialism

24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 25 Latin American Poetry

The Twilight of the Idols Modernism and the Avant-garde Surrealism and Elementalism Art and Politics The Cuban Revolution Poetry and the Conversational Style Gender and Ethnicity in the Poetic Canon

26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández

Macedonio Fernández (1874–1952) Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Felisberto Hernández (1902–64)

27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 28 The “Boom” of Spanish-American Fiction and the 1960s Revolutions (1958–75)

Problematic History Postscript

29 João Guimarães Rosa, Antônio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference

The Giant in the Margins Assimilating Difference The Sertão Is Brazil Unthinking Idealization The Left and the Center Speaking without a Voice As for the Future

30 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit

Introduction Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938) Rachel De Queiroz (1910–2003) Rosario Castellanos (1925–74) Nancy Morejón (1944–) Elena Poniatowska (1932–) Luisa Valenzuela (1938–) Diamela Eltit (1949–)

31 Caribbean Philosophy

Natural Poetics, Forced Poetics The Situation of the Spoken Creole and Landscape Convergence Cross-Cultural Poetics Complementary Note Concerning a Pseudo-Encounter “The Novel of the Americas”

PART V: Global and Local Perspectives

32 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture

Barbaric Avant-garde: the Anti-hegemonic Critical Consciousness of an Andean Decolonizing Debate

33 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority 34 Affectivity beyond “Bare Life”: On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film 35 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil 36 Post-Utopian Imaginaries: Narrating Uncertainty

Where Shangai Meets McOndinos and Cracks Farewell to the Arms Virtual Realism Takes Over

37 Cultural Modalities and Cross-Cultural Connections: Rock across Class and Ethnic Identities 38 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City’s Visual Economy

Film and the Coloniality of Power Marketing Diversity and the “New International Cultural Division of Labor” Indigenous Video and the Decolonization of Film Media and Cultural Studies

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