Alvaro Félix Bolaños is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida and the author of Barbarie y canibalismo en la retórica colonial: los indios pijaos de Fray Pedro Simón. Gustavo Verdesio is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of La invención del Uruguay: La entrada del territorio y sus habitantes a la cultura occidental.

• 1. Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism.Gustavo Verdesio2. On the issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America today.Alvaro Lelix Bolanos3. Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History.Jose Rabasa 4. Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codice Mendoza.Cora Lagos 5. Narrating Colonial Interventions: Dom Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada.Luis Fernando Restrepo6. (Post-)colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics.Antony Higgins 7. Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas.Stacey Schlau8. Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano.Mariselle Melendez 9. The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry, and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru.Jose Antonio Mazzotti11. History and Plunder in El Carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America.Alvaro Felix Bolanos10. The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan Jose Saei and Their Critics.Gustavo Verdersio AfterwordSara Castro-Klaren

"A deep, thoughtful, diverse, rich confrontation with postcolonial theory and the way it affects contemporary scholarly exegesis and appropriations of New World colonial literatures. A major contribution to Latin American studies and postcolonial theory." — Eduardo Mendieta, coeditor of Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation

Alvaro Félix Bolaños is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida and the author of Barbarie y canibalismo en la retórica colonial: los indios pijaos de Fray Pedro Simón. Gustavo Verdesio is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of La invención del Uruguay: La entrada del territorio y sus habitantes a la cultura occidental.

• 1. Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism.Gustavo Verdesio2. On the issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America today.Alvaro Lelix Bolanos3. Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History.Jose Rabasa 4. Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codice Mendoza.Cora Lagos 5. Narrating Colonial Interventions: Dom Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada.Luis Fernando Restrepo6. (Post-)colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics.Antony Higgins 7. Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas.Stacey Schlau8. Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano.Mariselle Melendez 9. The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry, and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru.Jose Antonio Mazzotti11. History and Plunder in El Carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America.Alvaro Felix Bolanos10. The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan Jose Saei and Their Critics.Gustavo Verdersio AfterwordSara Castro-Klaren

"A deep, thoughtful, diverse, rich confrontation with postcolonial theory and the way it affects contemporary scholarly exegesis and appropriations of New World colonial literatures. A major contribution to Latin American studies and postcolonial theory." — Eduardo Mendieta, coeditor of Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation

Alvaro Félix Bolaños is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida and the author of Barbarie y canibalismo en la retórica colonial: los indios pijaos de Fray Pedro Simón. Gustavo Verdesio is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of La invención del Uruguay: La entrada del territorio y sus habitantes a la cultura occidental.

• 1. Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism.Gustavo Verdesio2. On the issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America today.Alvaro Lelix Bolanos3. Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History.Jose Rabasa 4. Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codice Mendoza.Cora Lagos 5. Narrating Colonial Interventions: Dom Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada.Luis Fernando Restrepo6. (Post-)colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics.Antony Higgins 7. Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas.Stacey Schlau8. Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano.Mariselle Melendez 9. The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry, and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru.Jose Antonio Mazzotti11. History and Plunder in El Carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America.Alvaro Felix Bolanos10. The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan Jose Saei and Their Critics.Gustavo Verdersio AfterwordSara Castro-Klaren

"A deep, thoughtful, diverse, rich confrontation with postcolonial theory and the way it affects contemporary scholarly exegesis and appropriations of New World colonial literatures. A major contribution to Latin American studies and postcolonial theory." — Eduardo Mendieta, coeditor of Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation