Sara Castro-Klaren is Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at 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 mágico de José María Arguedas (1973), Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa (1990) and Escritura, transgresión y sujeto en la literatura latinoamericana (1989), Latin American Women Writers (1991) edited with Sylvia Molloy and Beatriz Sarlo and The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves: Writing Coloniality and Postcolonial Theory (2011).

• Notes on Contributors xiEditor's Acknowledgments xxAcknowledgments to Sources xxiIntroduction 1Sara Castro-KlarenPreamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking 12Walter D. MignoloPart I Coloniality 331 Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 35Gustavo Verdesio2 Writing Violence 49José Rabasa3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 68Carlos M. López4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 86Rocío Cortés5 Memory and "Writing" in the Andes 106Sara Castro-Klaren6 Writing the Andes 117Sara Castro-Klaren7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 137Lúcia Helena Costigan8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile's El carnero 146Álvaro Félix Bolaños9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 161Lisa DeLeonardis10 History of a Phantom 182Francisco A. Ortega11 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 197Kathryn Joy McKnightPart II Transformations 21112 The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anticolonialism and Protonationalism in Late Colonial Peru 213Peter Elmore13 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 228Franklin W. Knight14 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil 247Leila Gómez15 The Haitian Revolution 262Sibylle FischerPart III The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 27716 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 279Abril Trigo17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood 293Nicolas Shumway18 Reading National Subjects 309Juan Poblete19 For Love and Money: Of Potboilers and Precautions 333Doris SommerPart IV Uncertain Modernities 34920 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire 351Fernando Degiovanni21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 369Todd S. Garth22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts 379Horacio Legras23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfi l Batalla 397Javier Sanjinés C.24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 410Fernando J. Rosenberg25 Latin American Poetry 426Stephen M. Hart26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández 442Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 461Adriana Michèle Campos Johnson28 The "Boom" of Spanish-American Fiction and the 1960s Revolutions (1958–75) 478Gerald Martin29 João Guimarães Rosa, Antônio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference 495Elizabeth A. Marchant30 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit 509Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant31 Caribbean Philosophy 531Edouard GlissantPart V Global and Local Perspectives 55132 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture 553Elizabeth Monasterios P.33 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority 571John Beverley34 Affectivity beyond "Bare Life": On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film 584Hermann Herlinghaus35 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil 602Ileana Rodríguez36 Post-Utopian Imaginaries: Narrating Uncertainty 620Silvia G. Kurlat Ares37 Cultural Modalities and Cross-Cultural Connections: Rock across Class and Ethnic Identities 636Gustavo Verdesio38 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City's Visual Economy 647Freya SchiwyIndex 665

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