A companion to Latin American literature and culture
By: edited by Sara Castro-Klaren
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture; Blackwell companions to literature and culture
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9781118492147
Subjects: Latin American literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Social life and customs
Notes: Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Sara Castro-Klaren; title: Preamble: the historical foundation of modernity/coloniality and the emergence of decolonial thinking  -- Walter D. Mignolo; title: Coloniality.; title: Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas : indigenous peoples of the Americas and western knowledge  -- Gustavo Verdesio; title: Writing violence  -- Jose Rabasa; title: The Popol Wuj : the repositioning and survival of Mayan culture  -- Carlos M. Lopez; title: The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and its aftermath : Nahua intellectuals and the spiritual conquest of Mexico  -- Rocio Cortes; title: Memory and "writing" in the Andes  -- Sara Castro-Klaren; title: Writing the Andes  -- Sara Castro-Klaren; title: Court culture, ritual, satire, and music in colonial Brazil and Spanish America  -- Lucia Helena Costigan; title: Violence in the land of the musica : Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero  -- Alvaro Felix Bolanos; title: The splendor of Baroque visual arts  -- Lisa DeLeonardis; title: History of a phantom  -- Francisco A. Ortega; title: Colonial religiosity : nuns, heretics, and witches  -- Kathryn Joy McKnight; title: Transformations.; title: The Tupac Amaru Rebellion : anticolonialism and protonationalism in late colonial Peru  -- Peter Elmore; title: The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848  -- Franklin W. Knight; title: The philosopher-traveler : the secularization of knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil  -- Leila Gomez; title: The Haitian Revolution  -- Sibylle Fischer; title: The emergence of national communities in new imperial coordinates.; title: The gaucho and the gauchesca  -- Abril Trigo; title: Andres Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and Teresa de la Parra : four writers and four concepts of nationhood  -- Nicolas Shumway; title: Reading national subjects  -- Juan Poblete; title: For love and money : of potboilers and precautions  -- Doris Sommer; title: Uncertain modernities.; title: Shifting hegemonies : the cultural politics of empire  -- Fernando Degiovanni; title: Machado de Assis : the meaning of sardonic  -- Todd S. Garth; title: The Mexican Revolution and the plastic arts  -- Horacio Legras; title: Anthropology, pedagogy, and the various modulations of Indigenismo Amanta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla  -- Javier Sanjines C.; title: Cultural theory and the avant-gardes : Mariategui, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Tarsila do Amaral, Cesar Vallejo  -- Fernando J. Rosenberg; title: Latin American poetry  -- Stephen M. Hart; title: Literature between the wars : Macedonio Fernandez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernandez  -- Adriana J. Bergero; title: Narratives and deep histories : Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo  -- Adriana Michele Campos Johnson; title: The "boom" of Spanish-American fiction and the 1960s revolutions (1958-75)  -- Gerald Martin; title: Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Antonio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference  -- Elizabeth A. Marchant; title: Feminist insurrections : from Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejon, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit  -- Adriana J. Bergero, Elizabeth A. Marchant; title: Caribbean philosophy  -- Edouard Glissant; title: Global and local perspectives.; title: Uncertain modernities : Amerindian epistemologies and the reorienting of culture  -- Elizabeth Monasterios P.; title: Testimonio, subalternity, and narrative authority  -- John Beverley; title: Affectivity beyond "Bare Life" : on the non-tragic return of violence in Latin American film  -- Hermann Herlinghaus; title: Postmodern theory and cultural criticism in Spanish America and Brazil  -- Ileana Rodriguez; title: Post-utopian imaginaries : narrating uncertainty  -- Silvia G. Kurlat Ares; title: Cultural modalities and cross-cultural connections : rock across class and ethnic identities  -- Gastavo Verdesio; title: Film, indigenous video, and the lettered city's visual economy -- Freya Schiuy.