Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America

Mabel Moraña is William S. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences, and Director of Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She is the author of numerous books on colonial and contemporary literature and cultural theory.

• 1. Introduction: Texts, Textures, and Water Marks.- 2. The Pacific Ocean as a Space of Freedom, Danger, and Economic Success for the Colonial Project in Verdadera descripción de la Provincia y Tierra de Las Esmeraldas.- 3. English and Irish Missionaries in New Spain: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Religion and Empire.- 4. On Paper Ships, Sailors, and Cosmographers: Spanish Maritime Narratives and Political Networks of an Imperial Project.- 5. Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts.- 6. Alonso Ramírez’s Circumnavigation of the World (1675–1689) and the Universal Claim to the American Spirit in the Open Seas.- 7. Pantitlán or Desagüe: Technology and Secularization in Colonial Mexico City.- 8. “Water, Only Water on All Parts”: Re/imagining the Middle Passage in Teresa Cárdenas’ Mãe Sereia.