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A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture
Sara Castro-Klaren (Edited by)
9781119692539, Wiley
Hardback, published 2 June 2022
768 pages
24.6 x 17.1 x 4.2 cm, 1.559 kg
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: 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 Editor’s Acknowledgments xviii CODA. Companion 2022: As the World Turns… 1 Second Thoughts on the Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Advent of Decolonial Thinking 9 Part I Coloniality 19 1 Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 21 2 Writing Violence 37 3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 56 4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 74 5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes 95 6 Writing the Andes 106 7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 126 8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile’s 9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 150 10 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 170 Part II Transformations 183 11 Visual Representations of Tupac Amaru II 185 12 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 187 13 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge, Space, and Time in Mexico and South America 206 14 Slave Culture in Brazil, 1500s–1888 220 15 The Haitian Revolution 234 Part III the Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 249 16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 251 17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood 265 18 Reading National Subjects 281 19 The Muisca beyond Melancholy: Literature, Art, and the Colombian State 305 Part IV Uncertain Modernities 323 20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire 325 21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 343 22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts 353 23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla 371 24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 384 25 Latin American Poetry 399 26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández 415 27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 434 28 Alterity and Absence Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector 451 29 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit 464 30 Caribbean Philosophy 486 Part V Global and Local Perspectives 505 31 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture 507 32 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority 524 33 Affectivity beyond “Bare Life”: On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film 537 34 Photography in Latin America: The Case for Another Photography 555 35 Rock and Pop across Cultural Boundaries: The Story of a Tension between Mimicry and Autochthony 572 36 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City’s Visual Economy Revisited 584 37 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil 601 Part VI Uncharted Waters 619 38 Plants, People, and the Ecological Imagination in Latin America 621 39 Atmospheres of the Marvelous: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World 634 40 The Indigenous “Contact Film” and Its Afterlives in Latin American Cinema 646 41 Femicide and Feminist Performance 658 42 Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture 671 43 From Human Rights to Rights beyond the Human 685 44 Imagining Amazonia Cartographically 699 45 The Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects 714 46 Wars over Water: Toward an Eco-Perspectivist Subaltern Ecology 728 Index 743
Sara Castro-Klaren
Walter D. Mignolo
Gustavo Verdesio
José Rabasa
Carlos M. López
Rocío Cortés Copyrighted Material
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Sara Castro-Klaren
Lúcia Helena Costigan
El carnero 135
Álvaro Félix Bolaños
Lisa DeLeonardis
Kathryn Joy McKnight
Peter Elmore
Franklin W. Knight
Leila Gómez
Hendrik Kraay
Sibylle Fischer
Abril Trigo
Nicolas Shumway
Juan Poblete
Luis Fernando Restrepo
Fernando Degiovanni
Todd S. Garth
Horacio Legras
Javier Sanjinés C.
Fernando J. Rosenberg
Stephen M. Hart
Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth
Adriana Michèle Campos Johnson
Elizabeth A. Marchant
Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant
Edouard Glissant
Elizabeth Monasterios Pérez
John Beverley
Hermann Herlinghaus
Jorge Coronado
Gustavo Verdesio
Freya Schiwy
Ileana Rodríguez
Lesley Wylie
Jeronimo Arellano
Gustavo Furtado
Debra A. Castillo
Matthew Bush
Fernando J. Rosenberg
Amanda M. Smith
Juan G. Ramos
Orlando Betancor
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
