Part VI: Identities -- Representing/Erasing the Other in Colonial Brazil's Eighteenth-Century Epic Poetry / Sandra Sousa. Defining Portuguese America : The First Depictions of Brazil within the Context of Overseas Expansion / Sarissa Carneiro -- The Conquest of Space in the Relación del Descubrimiento del Rio Marañon by Geronimo de Ypori (c. 1630) / Yamile Silva -- Disturbing Place : Afro-Iberian Herbalists Interrupt Imperial Cartagena de Indias / Kathryn Joy McKnight -- Part II: Body -- The Health of the Soul : Religious Guidance and Medical Practice in Early Colonial Mexico / Yarí Pérez Marín -- Viceroy Valero's Heart : A Traveling Relic, and an Embodied Metaphor in Transit to the Indies / Judith Farré Vidal -- Humoralism and Colonial Subjugation : Indians and Medical Knowledge in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Germán Morong Reyes -- Assaulted Bodies : The Case of Two Female Slaves in the Port City of Santa María de los Ángeles de Buenos Aires, 1772-1778 / Mariselle Meléndez -- Part III: Belief Systems -- The Flood Story in the Huarochirí Manuscript and Other Early Colonial Andean Texts / Soledad González Díaz -- Idol or Martyr : Sacredness and Symbol in the Religiosity of the Indies / Esperanza López Parada -- Creole Religiosity in Colonial Mexico : Devotional Cultures in Transition / Stephanie Kirk -- The Empire Beyond Spanish America : Spanish Augustinians in the Pacific World / Eva María Mehl -- Indigenous Peoples and Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City / Mónica Díaz -- Part IV: Literacies -- Transcultural Intertextuality in Colonial Latin America / Galen Brokaw -- Becoming a Book : The Reproduction, Falsification, and Digitalization of Colonial Codices / José Ramón Jouve-Martín -- From Print to Public Performance to Relaciones de fiestas : Don Quixote in Viceregal Festivals / Eva María Valero Juan -- Colonial Latin American Bibliography and the Indigenous Text / Clayton McCarl and Lindsay Van Tine -- Part V: Languages -- Technologies of Communication in Transition : Indigenous Orality and Writing in Colonial Mexico / Kelly S. McDonough -- A Baroque Arte : Horacio Carochi and the Tradition of Nahuatl Grammars / Caroline Egan -- Acquiring a Voice : The Plebs Speak in Early Colonial Río de La Plata / Loreley El Jaber -- Knowledge in Transition : Rethinking the Science of Sameness in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's New Spain / Allison Margaret Bigelow -- Part VI: Identities -- Textual Figures and Modalities of Change : The Soldier, the Translator, the Plebeian, and the Woman Chronicler / Valeria Añón -- Diego Muñoz Camargo and the Destabilization of the Relación Geográfica : Adaptation and Variation in the Mestizo Chronicle / Héctor Costilla Martínez -- Representing/Erasing the Other in Colonial Brazil's Eighteenth-Century Epic Poetry / Sandra Sousa.
Summary:
"This volume brings together a fine collection of essays that examine an ample and rich gamut of transitions in more than three hundred years of colonial Latin American literary, visual and performance texts. Once called "the empire where the sun does not set," the Spanish-and Portuguese-territories extended from what is now the US Southwest to Tierra del Fuego at the most southern point of the American continent, and from the Iberian coasts to the Philippines and China. The Iberian territory between 1492 and 1800 was transatlantic, transpacific, and hemispheric. This volume brings together a group of literary and interdisciplinary scholars from multiple continents, experts each of them in this geography and time period that spans such extraordinary breadth. Their contributions are part of a collective reflection on transitions in colonial Latin American literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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