Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492-1800

ISBN-13: 9781108838832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli; Amber Brian

Opis

Examines the transitions from approximately 1492-1800 that intersected and shaped the emergence of Latin America and its distinctive literary production.

Spis treści

Part I. Land, Space, Territory: 1. Migrations and foundations in the literature of New Spain Pablo García Loaeza; 2. Defining Portuguese America: The first depictions of Brazil within the context of overseas expansion Sarissa Carneiro; 3. The conquest of space in the Relación del Descubrimiento del Rio Marañon by Geronimo de Ypori (c. 1630) Yamile Silva; 4. Disturbing place: Afro-Iberian herbalists interrupt imperial Cartagena de Indias Kathryn Joy McKnight; Part II. Body: 5. The Health of the Soul: Religious guidance and medical practice in early colonial Mexico Yarí Pérez Marín; 6. Viceroy Valero's heart: A traveling relic, and an embodied metaphor in transit to the Indies Judith Farré Vidal; 7. Humoralism and colonial subjugation: Indians and medical knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Germán Morong Reyes; 8. Assaulted bodies: the case of two enslaved black women in the port city of Santa María de los Ángeles de Buenos Aires, 1772-1778 Mariselle Meléndez; Part III. Belief Systems: 9. The flood story in the Huarochirí Manuscript and other early colonial andean texts Soledad González Díaz; 10. Idol or Martyr: Sacredness and symbol in the religiosity of the Indies Esperanza López Parada; 11. Creole religiosity in colonial Mexico: Devotional cultures in transition Stephanie Kirk; 12. The empire beyond Spanish America: Spanish Augustinians in the Pacific World Eva María Mehl; 13. Indigenous peoples and Catholicism in eighteenth-century Mexico City Mónica Díaz; Part IV. Literacies: 14. Transcultural intertextuality in colonial Latin America Galen Brokaw; 15. Becoming a book: The reproduction, falsification, and digitalization of colonial codices José Ramón Jouve-Martín; 16. From print to public performance to Relaciones de fiestas: Don Quixote in viceregal festivals Eva María Valero Juan; 17. Colonial Latin American bibliography and the indigenous text Clayton McCarl and Lindsay Van Tine; Part V. Languages: 18. Technologies of communication in transition: Indigenous orality and writing in colonial Mexico Kelly S. McDonough; 19. A baroque arte: Horacio Carochi and the tradition of nahuatl grammars Caroline Egan; 20. Acquiring a voice: the plebeians speak in early colonial Río de La Plata Loreley El Jaber; 21. Knowledge in transition: Rethinking the science of sameness in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's New Spain Allison Margaret Bigelow; Part VI. Identities: 22. Textual figures and modalities of change: The Soldier, the Translator, the Plebeian, and the Woman Chronicler Valeria Añón; 23. Diego Muñoz Camargo and the destabilization of the Relación Geográfica: adaptation and variation in the Mestizo Chronicle Héctor Costilla Martínez; 24. Representing/erasing the other in colonial Brazil's eighteenth-century epic poetry Sandra Sousa.