Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492-1800

Herausgeber: Quispe-Agnoli, Rocío

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the transitions from approximately 1492-1800 that intersected and shaped the emergence of Latin America and its distinctive literary production. It is built around six thematic areas that underline the key processes that shaped this period and its legacy: space; body; belief systems; literacies; languages; and identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9781108838832
• ISBN-10: 1108838839
• Artikelnr.: 63699323

Inhaltsangabe

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.