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A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1118492145
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118492147
- Pub. Date:
- 06/04/2013
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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"The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum."
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"In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian America to an intriguing consideration of recent developments in the debate on the modem and postmodern. Summing Up: Recommended."
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A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century.
Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry. This allows the reader to more accurately interpret the esteemed but demanding literature of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Diamela Eltit. Key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders, as in the cases of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, César Vallejo, and Gabriel García Márquez, are also discussed in historical and theoretical context. Additional essays engage the reader with in-depth discussions of forms and genres, and discussions of architecture, music, and film
This text provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781118492147 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 06/04/2013 |
| Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
| Pages: | 720 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.50(d) |
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors xiEditor’s Acknowledgments xviii
CODA. Companion 2022: As the World Turns… 1Sara Castro-Klaren
Second Thoughts on the Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Advent of Decolonial Thinking 9Walter D. Mignolo
Part I Coloniality 19
1 Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 21Gustavo Verdesio
2 Writing Violence 37José Rabasa
3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 56Carlos M. López
4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 74Rocío Cortés
5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes 95Sara Castro-Klaren
6 Writing the Andes 106Sara Castro-Klaren
7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 126Lúcia Helena Costigan
8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero 135Álvaro Félix Bolaños
9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 150Lisa DeLeonardis
10 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 170Kathryn Joy McKnight
Part II Transformations 183
11 Visual Representations of Tupac Amaru II 185Peter Elmore
12 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 187Franklin W. Knight
13 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge, Space, and Time in Mexico and South America 206Leila Gómez
14 Slave Culture in Brazil, 1500s–1888 220Hendrik Kraay
15 The Haitian Revolution 234Sibylle Fischer
Part III The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 249
16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 251Abril Trigo
17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood 265Nicolas Shumway
18 Reading National Subjects 281Juan Poblete
19 The Muisca beyond Melancholy: Literature, Art, and the Colombian State 305Luis Fernando Restrepo
Part IV Uncertain Modernities 32320 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire 325Fernando Degiovanni
21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 343Todd S. Garth
22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts 353Horacio Legras
23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla 371Javier Sanjinés C.
24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 384Fernando J. Rosenberg
25 Latin American Poetry 399Stephen M. Hart
26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández 415Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth
27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 434Adriana Michèle Campos Johnson
28 Alterity and Absence Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector 451Elizabeth A. Marchant
29 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit 464Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant
30 Caribbean Philosophy 486Edouard Glissant
Part V Global and Local Perspectives 505
31 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture 507Elizabeth Monasterios Pérez
32 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority 524John Beverley
33 Affectivity beyond “Bare Life”: On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film 537Hermann Herlinghaus
34 Photography in Latin America: The Case for Another Photography 555Jorge Coronado
35 Rock and Pop across Cultural Boundaries: The Story of a Tension between Mimicry and Autochthony 572Gustavo Verdesio
36 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City’s Visual Economy Revisited 584Freya Schiwy
37 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil 601Ileana Rodríguez
Part VI Uncharted Waters 619
38 Plants, People, and the Ecological Imagination in Latin America 621Lesley Wylie
39 Atmospheres of the Marvelous: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World 634Jeronimo Arellano
40 The Indigenous “Contact Film” and Its Afterlives in Latin American Cinema 646Gustavo Furtado
41 Femicide and Feminist Performance 658Debra A. Castillo
42 Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture 671Matthew Bush
43 From Human Rights to Rights beyond the Human 685Fernando J. Rosenberg
44 Imagining Amazonia Cartographically 699Amanda M. Smith
45 The Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects 714Juan G. Ramos
46 Wars over Water: Toward an Eco-Perspectivist Subaltern Ecology 728Orlando Betancor
Index 743
What People are Saying About This
"The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum." (Reference Review, November 2009)
"In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian America to an intriguing consideration of recent developments in the debate on the modem and postmodern. Summing Up: Recommended." (CHOICE, February 2009)