Full Description
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) brings together an international team of scholars to explore new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for the study of colonialism.
Using four overarching themes, the volume examines a wide array of critical issues, key texts, and figures that demonstrate the significance of Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean across national and regional traditions and historical periods.
This invaluable resource will be of interest to students and scholars of Spanish and Latin American studies examining colonial Caribbean and Latin America at the intersection of cultural and historical studies; transatlantic, postcolonial and decolonial studies; and critical approaches to archives and materiality. This timely volume assesses the impact and legacy of colonialism and coloniality.
Contents
Introduction: between colonialism and coloniality: colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today PART I: Colonialism and Coloniality 1. Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies 2. Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America 3. Mestizaje as dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies 4. Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo in Spanish America 5. An integrational approach to colonial semiosis 6. Latin American and Caribbean Colonial Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn 7. The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the Caribbean: of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities 8. Coloniality and Cinema PART II: Knowledge Production and Networks 9. Old testament, New World: diluvialism and the Amerindian origins debate in the Enlightenment 10. The "cannibal cogito" and Brazilian antropofagia: radical heterogeneity or "family resemblance"? 11. Presumptions of empire: relapses, reboots, and reversions in the Transpacific networks of Iberian globalization 12. Imperial tension, colonial contours: Jesuits, slavery, and race within and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic 13. The Caribbean conundrum: José Antonio Saco's Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic PART III: Materialities and Archives 14. Material Encounters: Columbus's Diario del primer viaje and the objects of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies 15. It comes with the territory: indigenous materialities and western knowledge 16. Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico: religion, gender and power 17. The colonial Latin American archive: dispossession, ruins, reinvention 18. Materialities and archives 19. Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century Spanish America 20. Space, movement and writing in Colonial Río de la Plata PART IV: Language, Translation and Beyond 21. The white legend: El Dorado, Pachakuti, and Walter Raleigh's discovery of (Latin) America 22. The agency of translation in colonial Latin America: re-thinking the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries 23. Intercultural (mis)translations: colonial static and "authorship" in the Florentine Codex and the Relaciones geográficas of New Spain 24. Defending the indefensible: Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty 25. The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity in the Andes
