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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454933803321

Titolo

Colonialism past and present [[electronic resource] ] : reading and writing about colonial Latin America today / / edited by Alvaro Félix Bolaños and Gustavo Verdesio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8976-0

0-585-44284-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BolañosAlvaro Félix <1955->

VerdesioGustavo

Disciplina

980

Soggetti

Spanish American literature - History and criticism

Spanish American literature - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Latin America Civilization

Latin America History To 1830 Historiography

Latin America In literature

Latin America Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

(Post-)Colonial sublime : order and interdeterminacy in Eighteenth century Spanish American poetics and aesthetics / Anthony Higgins -- Gendered crime and punishment in New Spain : inquisitional cases against Ilusas / Stacey Schlau -- Representing gender, deviance and heterogeneity in the Eighteenth Century Peruvian newspaper Mercurio peruano / Mariselle Melendez -- The dragon and the seashell : British corsairs, epic poetry and Creole nation in Viceregal Peru / Jose Antonio Mazzotti -- History and plunder in El carnero : writing, among Indians, a history of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America / Alvaro Felix Bolaños -- The literary appropriation of the American landscape : the historical novels of Abel Posse and Juan Jose Saer and their critics / Gustavo Verdesio -- Writing with his thumb in the air : coloniality, past and present / Sara Castro-Klaren.

Colonialism now and then : Colonial Latin American studies in the light



of the predicament of Latin Americanism / Gustavo Verdesio -- On the issues of academic colonialization and responsibility when reading and writing about colonial Latin America today / Alvaro Felix Bolaños -- Pre-Colombian pasts and Indian presents in Mexican history / Jose Rabasa -- Confronting imaginations : towards alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza / Cora Lagos -- Narrating colonial interventions : Don Diego de Torres, cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada / Luis Fernando Restrepo --