Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

Sara Castro-Klaren is Emerita Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. She has published several books on the Latin American novel, with a particular focus on the works of Jose Maria Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar, and Diamela Eltit.

• Notes on Contributors xiEditor’s Acknowledgments xviiiCODA. Companion 2022: As the World Turns… 1Sara Castro-KlarenSecond Thoughts on the Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Advent of Decolonial Thinking 9Walter D. MignoloPart I Coloniality 191 Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 21Gustavo Verdesio2 Writing Violence 37José Rabasa3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 56Carlos M. López4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 74Rocío Cortés5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes 95Sara Castro-Klaren6 Writing the Andes 106Sara Castro-Klaren7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 126Lúcia Helena Costigan8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero 135Álvaro Félix Bolaños9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 150Lisa DeLeonardis10 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 170Kathryn Joy McKnightPart II Transformations 18311 Visual Representations of Tupac Amaru II 185Peter Elmore12 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 187Franklin W. Knight13 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge, Space, and Time in Mexico and South America 206Leila Gómez14 Slave Culture in Brazil, 1500s–1888 220Hendrik Kraay15 The Haitian Revolution 234Sibylle FischerPart III The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 24916 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 251Abril Trigo17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood 265Nicolas Shumway18 Reading National Subjects 281Juan Poblete19 The Muisca beyond Melancholy: Literature, Art, and the Colombian State 305Luis Fernando RestrepoPart IV Uncertain Modernities 32320 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire 325Fernando Degiovanni21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 343Todd S. Garth22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts 353Horacio Legras23 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. Rosenberg25 Latin American Poetry 399Stephen M. Hart26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández 415Adriana J. Bergero, translated by Todd S. Garth27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 434Adriana Michèle Campos Johnson28 Alterity and Absence Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector 451Elizabeth A. Marchant29 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit 464Adriana J. Bergero and Elizabeth A. Marchant30 Caribbean Philosophy 486Edouard GlissantPart V Global and Local Perspectives 50531 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture 507Elizabeth Monasterios Pérez32 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority 524John Beverley33 Affectivity beyond “Bare Life”: On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film 537Hermann Herlinghaus34 Photography in Latin America: The Case for Another Photography 555Jorge Coronado35 Rock and Pop across Cultural Boundaries: The Story of a Tension between Mimicry and Autochthony 572Gustavo Verdesio36 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City’s Visual Economy Revisited 584Freya Schiwy37 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil 601Ileana RodríguezPart VI Uncharted Waters 61938 Plants, People, and the Ecological Imagination in Latin America 621Lesley Wylie39 Atmospheres of the Marvelous: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World 634Jeronimo Arellano40 The Indigenous “Contact Film” and Its Afterlives in Latin American Cinema 646Gustavo Furtado41 Femicide and Feminist Performance 658Debra A. Castillo42 Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture 671Matthew Bush43 From Human Rights to Rights beyond the Human 685Fernando J. Rosenberg44 Imagining Amazonia Cartographically 699Amanda M. Smith45 The Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects 714Juan G. Ramos46 Wars over Water: Toward an Eco-Perspectivist Subaltern Ecology 728Orlando BetancorIndex 743