Introduction /Sara Castro-Klaren -Preamble: the historical foundation of modernity/coloniality and the emergence of decolonial thinking /Walter D. Mignolo -Coloniality.Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas : indigenous peoples of the Americas and western knowledge /Gustavo Verdesio -Writing violence /Jose Rabasa -The Popol Wuj : the repositioning and survival of Mayan culture /Carlos M. Lopez -The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and its aftermath : Nahua intellectuals and the spiritual conquest of Mexico /Rocio Cortes -Memory and "writing" in the Andes /Sara Castro-Klaren -Writing the Andes /Sara Castro-Klaren -Court culture, ritual, satire, and music in colonial Brazil and Spanish America /Lucia Helena Costigan -Violence in the land of the musica : Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero /Alvaro Felix Bolanos -The splendor of Baroque visual arts /Lisa DeLeonardis -History of a phantom /Francisco A. Ortega -Colonial religiosity : nuns, heretics, and witches /Kathryn Joy McKnight -Transformations.The Tupac Amaru Rebellion : anticolonialism and protonationalism in late colonial Peru /Peter Elmore -The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848 /Franklin W. Knight -The philosopher-traveler : the secularization of knowledge in Spanish America and Brazil /Leila Gomez -The Haitian Revolution /Sibylle Fischer -The emergence of national communities in new imperial coordinates.The gaucho and the gauchesca /Abril Trigo -Andres Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and Teresa de la Parra : four writers and four concepts of nationhood /Nicolas Shumway -Reading national subjects /Juan Poblete -For love and money : of potboilers and precautions /Doris Sommer -Uncertain modernities.Shifting hegemonies : the cultural politics of empire /Fernando Degiovanni -Machado de Assis : the meaning of sardonic /Todd S. Garth -The Mexican Revolution and the plastic arts /Horacio Legras -Anthropology, pedagogy, and the various modulations of Indigenismo Amanta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla /Javier Sanjines C. -Cultural theory and the avant-gardes : Mariategui, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Tarsila do Amaral, Cesar Vallejo /Fernando J. Rosenberg -Latin American poetry /Stephen M. Hart -Literature between the wars : Macedonio Fernandez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernandez /Adriana J. Bergero -Narratives and deep histories : Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo /Adriana Michele Campos Johnson -The "boom" of Spanish-American fiction and the 1960s revolutions (1958-75) /Gerald Martin -Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Antonio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference /Elizabeth A. Marchant -Feminist insurrections : from Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejon, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit /Adriana J. Bergero, Elizabeth A. Marchant -Caribbean philosophy /Edouard Glissant -Global and local perspectives.Uncertain modernities : Amerindian epistemologies and the reorienting of culture /Elizabeth Monasterios P. -Testimonio, subalternity, and narrative authority /John Beverley -Affectivity beyond "Bare Life" : on the non-tragic return of violence in Latin American film /Hermann Herlinghaus -Postmodern theory and cultural criticism in Spanish America and Brazil /Ileana Rodriguez -Post-utopian imaginaries : narrating uncertainty /Silvia G. Kurlat Ares -Cultural modalities and cross-cultural connections : rock across class and ethnic identities /Gastavo Verdesio -Film, indigenous video, and the lettered city's visual economy /Freya Schiuy.
Latin American literature -- History and criticism