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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: between colonialism and coloniality: colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias
- Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies
- Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America
- Mestizaje as dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies
- Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo in Spanish America
- An integrational approach to colonial semiosis
- Latin American and Caribbean Colonial Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn
- The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the Caribbean: of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities
- Coloniality and Cinema
- Old testament, New World: diluvialism and the Amerindian origins debate in the Enlightenment
- The "cannibal cogito" and Brazilian antropofagia: radical heterogeneity or "family resemblance"?
- Presumptions of empire: relapses, reboots, and reversions in the Transpacific networks of Iberian globalization
- Imperial tension, colonial contours: Jesuits, slavery, and race within and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic
- The Caribbean conundrum: José Antonio Saco’s Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic
- Material Encounters: Columbus’s Diario del primer viaje and the objects of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies
- It comes with the territory: indigenous materialities and western knowledge
- Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico: religion, gender and power
- The colonial Latin American archive: dispossession, ruins, reinvention
- Materialities and archives
- Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century Spanish America
- Space, movement and writing in Colonial Río de la Plata
- The white legend: El Dorado, Pachakuti, and Walter Raleigh’s discovery of (Latin) America
- The agency of translation in colonial Latin America: re-thinking the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries
- Intercultural (mis)translations: colonial static and "authorship" in the Florentine Codex and the Relaciones geográficas of New Spain
- Defending the indefensible: Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty
- The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity in the Andes
PART I
Colonialism and Coloniality
Daniel Nemser
Karen Graubart
Laura Catelli
José Antonio Mazzotti
Galen Brokaw
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert
Juan Poblete
PART II
Knowledge Production and Networks
Ruth Hill
Luís Madureira
John D. Blanco
Hugh Cagle
Eyda Merediz
PART III
Materialities and Archives
Raquel Albarrán
Gustavo Verdesio
Stephanie Kirk
Anna More
Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez
Mariselle Meléndez
Loreley El Jaber
PART IV
Language, Translation and Beyond
Ralph Bauer
Larissa Brewer-García
Kelly McDonough
Nicole Legnani
Michael Horswell
Notes on contributors



