Colonialism Past and Present : Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today.

Intro -- Colonialism Past and Present -- Contents -- Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism by Gustavo Verdesio -- On the Issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing About Colonial Latin America Today by Alvaro Félix Bolaños -- Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History by José Rabasa -- Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza by Cora Lagos -- Narrating Colonial Interventions: Don Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmequé in the New Kingdom of Granada by Luis Fernando Restrepo -- (Post-)Colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics by Antony Higgins -- Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas by Stacey Schlau -- Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-Century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano by Mariselle Meléndez -- The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru by José Antonio Mazzotti -- History and Plunder in El carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America by Alvaro Félix Bolaños -- The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan José Saer and Their Critics by Gustavo Verdesio -- "Writing with his thumb in the air": Coloniality, Past and Present by Sara Castro-Klarén -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Critiques lingering manifestations of colonialism in contemporary Latin American scholarship.

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