Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

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), along with Latin American Women Writers (1991) edited with Sylvia Molloy and Beatriz Sarlo.

Notes on Contributors. Editor's Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments to Sources. Introduction (Sara Castro-Klaren). Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking (Walter D. Mignolo). Part I Coloniality. 1 Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge (Gustavo Verdesio). 2 Writing Violence (Jose Rabasa). 3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture (Carlos M. Lopez). 4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico (Rocio Cortes). 5 Memory and "Writing" in the Andes (Sara Castro-Klaren). 6 Writing the Andes (Sara Castro-Klaren). 7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America (Lucia Helena Costigan). 8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero (Alvaro Felix Bolanos). 9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts (Lisa DeLeonardis). 10 History of a Phantom (Francisco A. Ortega). 11 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches (Kathryn Joy McKnight). Part II Transformations. 12 The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anticolonialism and Protonationalism in Late Colonial Peru (Peter Elmore). 13 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848 (Franklin W. Knight). 14 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil (Leila Gomez). 15 The Haitian Revolution (Sibylle Fischer). Part III The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates. 16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca (Abril Trigo). 17 Andres Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood (Nicolas Shumway). 18 Reading National Subjects (Juan Poblete). 19 For Love and Money: Of Potboilers and Precautions (Doris Sommer). Part IV Uncertain Modernities. 20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire (Fernando Degiovanni). 21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic (Todd S. Garth). 22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts (Horacio Legras). 23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfi l Batalla (Javier Sanjines C.). 24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariategui, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Tarsila do Amaral, Cesar Vallejo (Fernando J. Rosenberg). 25 Latin American Poetry (Stephen M. Hart). 26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernandez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernandez (Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth). 27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo (Adriana Michele Campos Johnson). 28 The "Boom" of Spanish-American Fiction and the 1960s Revolutions (1958-75) (Gerald Martin). 29 Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Antonio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference (Elizabeth A. Marchant). 30 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejon, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit (Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant). 31 Caribbean Philosophy (Edouard Glissant). Part V Global and Local Perspectives. 32 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture (Elizabeth Monasterios P.). 33 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority (John Beverley). 34 Affectivity beyond "Bare Life": On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film (Hermann Herlinghaus). 35 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil (Ileana Rodriguez). 36 Post-Utopian Imaginaries: Narrating Uncertainty (Silvia G. Kurlat Ares). 37 Cultural Modalities and Cross-Cultural Connections: Rock across Class and Ethnic Identities (Gustavo Verdesio). 38 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City's Visual Economy (Freya Schiwy). Index.