A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

Notes on Contributors xi
 
Editor's Acknowledgments xx
 
Acknowledgments to Sources xxi
 
Introduction 1
Sara Castro-Klaren
 
Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking 12
Walter D. Mignolo
 
Part I Coloniality 33
 
1 Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 35
Gustavo Verdesio
 
2 Writing Violence 49
José Rabasa
 
3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 68
Carlos M. López
 
4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 86
Rocío Cortés
 
5 Memory and "Writing" in the Andes 106
Sara Castro-Klaren
 
6 Writing the Andes 117
Sara Castro-Klaren
 
7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 137
Lúcia Helena Costigan
 
8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile's El carnero 146
Álvaro Félix Bolaños
 
9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 161
Lisa DeLeonardis
 
10 History of a Phantom 182
Francisco A. Ortega
 
11 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 197
Kathryn Joy McKnight
 
Part II Transformations 211
 
12 The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anticolonialism and Protonationalism in Late Colonial Peru 213
Peter Elmore
 
13 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848 228
Franklin W. Knight
 
14 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil 247
Leila Gómez
 
15 The Haitian Revolution 262
Sibylle Fischer
 
Part III The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 277
 
16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 279
Abril Trigo
 
17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood

Sara Castro-Klaren is Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at The Johns Hopkins University. She has been the recipient of several teaching awards. Most recently the Foreign Service Institute conferred upon her the title of "Distinguished Visiting Lecturer" (1993). She was appointed to the Fulbright Board of Directors by President Clinton in 1999. Her publications include El mundo magico de Jose Maria Arguedas (1973), Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa (1990) and Escritura, Sujeto y transgresion en la Literature latinoamericana (1989), Latin American Women Writers (1991) edited with Sylvia Molloy and Beatriz Sarlo and The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves: Writing Coloniality and Postcolonial Theory Frankfurt/Madrid, Vervuert, 2011