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 essayswhether they're written from the perspective of historiography, affect theory, decolonial approaches, or human rightsintroduce 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.
Notes on Contributors xi
Editors 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
Rocķo Cortés
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
Lścia Helena Costigan
8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodrķguez Freiles El carnero
135
Įlvaro Félix Bolańos
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, 17881848 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, 1500s1888 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 Gonzįlez 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: Mariįtegui, Mįrio de Andrade,
Oswald de Andrade, Pagś, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 384
Fernando J. Rosenberg
25 Latin American Poetry 399
Stephen M. Hart
26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernįndez, Jorge Luis Borges, and
Felisberto Hernįndez 415
Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth
27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 434
Adriana Michčle Campos Johnson
28 Alterity and Absence Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarćes
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 Citys Visual Economy Revisited
584
Freya Schiwy
37 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil
601
Ileana Rodrķguez
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
Sara Castro-Klaren is Emerita Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. She has published several books on the Latin American novel, with a particular focus on the works of Jose Maria Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar, and Diamela Eltit.
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