Colonialism past and Present
An examination of historical and literary texts produced in colonial Latin America. Eleven articles, gathered by Bola<~n>os (Romance languages and literatures, U. of Florida) and Verdesio (Romance languages and literatures, U. of Michigan), attempt to understand how the colonial legacies still present across Latin America condition and inform studies of the colonial past. The majority of the articles study social situations of the past understood as the origins of present day social...
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Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism1On the Issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America today19Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History51Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza79Narrating Colonial Interventions: Don Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada97(Post-)Colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics119Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas151Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-Century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano175The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru197History and Plunder in El carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America215The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan Saer and Their Critics239Afterword: "Writing with his thumb in the air": Coloniality, Past and Present261Index289
