A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE “The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.” Reference Review “In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian America to an intriguing consideration of recent developments in the debate on the modem and postmodern. Summing Up: Recommended.” CHOICE A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry. This allows the reader to more accurately interpret the esteemed but demanding literature of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Diamela Eltit. Key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders, as in the cases of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, César Vallejo, and Gabriel García Márquez, are also discussed in historical and theoretical context. Additional essays engage the reader with in-depth discussions of forms and genres, and discussions of architecture, music, and film This text provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading. 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. __A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture__ reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry. This text provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture examines the cultural and historical contexts behind the work of major Latin American writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel Garca Mrquez.: Places major Latin American authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays and poetry; Reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the 20th century; Allows the reader to more accurately interpret the esteemed but demanding literature of authors such as Jo This text places major Latin American authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry in a manner that reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century The essays in this book place major Latin American authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays and poetry. Individual chapters are dedicated to key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders