Originally published: 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Freya Schiuy. Film, indigenous video, and the lettered city's visual economy / Walter D. Mignolo -- Coloniality. Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas : indigenous peoples of the Americas and western knowledge / Gustavo Verdesio -- Writing violence / Jose Rabasa -- The Popol Wuj : the repositioning and survival of Mayan culture / Carlos M. Lopez -- The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and its aftermath : Nahua intellectuals and the spiritual conquest of Mexico / Rocio Cortes -- Memory and "writing" in the Andes / Sara Castro-Klaren -- Writing the Andes / Sara Castro-Klaren -- Court culture, ritual, satire, and music in colonial Brazil and Spanish America / Lucia Helena Costigan -- Violence in the land of the musica : Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero / Alvaro Felix Bolanos -- The splendor of Baroque visual arts / Lisa DeLeonardis -- History of a phantom / Francisco A. Ortega -- Colonial religiosity : nuns, heretics, and witches / Kathryn Joy McKnight -- Transformations. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion : anticolonialism and protonationalism in late colonial Peru / Peter Elmore -- The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848 / Franklin W. Knight -- The philosopher-traveler : the secularization of knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil / Leila Gomez -- The Haitian Revolution / Sibylle Fischer -- The emergence of national communities in new imperial coordinates. The gaucho and the gauchesca / Abril Trigo -- Andres Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and Teresa de la Parra : four writers and four concepts of nationhood / Nicolas Shumway -- Reading national subjects / Juan Poblete -- For love and money : of potboilers and precautions / Doris Sommer -- Uncertain modernities. Shifting hegemonies : the cultural politics of empire / Fernando Degiovanni -- Machado de Assis : the meaning of sardonic / Todd S. Garth -- The Mexican Revolution and the plastic arts / Horacio Legras -- Anthropology, pedagogy, and the various modulations of Indigenismo Amanta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla / Javier Sanjines C. -- Cultural theory and the avant-gardes : Mariategui, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Tarsila do Amaral, Cesar Vallejo / Fernando J. Rosenberg -- Latin American poetry / Stephen M. Hart -- Literature between the wars : Macedonio Fernandez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernandez / Adriana J. Bergero -- Narratives and deep histories : Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo / Adriana Michele Campos Johnson -- The "boom" of Spanish-American fiction and the 1960s revolutions (1958-75) / Gerald Martin -- Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Antonio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference / Elizabeth A. Marchant -- Feminist insurrections : from Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejon, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit / Adriana J. Bergero, Elizabeth A. Marchant -- Caribbean philosophy / Edouard Glissant -- Global and local perspectives. Uncertain modernities : Amerindian epistemologies and the reorienting of culture / Elizabeth Monasterios P. -- Testimonio, subalternity, and narrative authority / John Beverley -- Affectivity beyond "Bare Life" : on the non-tragic return of violence in Latin American film / Hermann Herlinghaus -- Postmodern theory and cultural criticism in Spanish America and Brazil / Ileana Rodriguez -- Post-utopian imaginaries : narrating uncertainty / Silvia G. Kurlat Ares -- Cultural modalities and cross-cultural connections : rock across class and ethnic identities / Gastavo Verdesio -- Film, indigenous video, and the lettered city's visual economy / Freya Schiuy.
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