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Names: Castro-Klarén, Sara, editor. Title: A Companion to Latin American literature and culture / edited by Sara Castro-Klaren. Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2021042908 (print) | LCCN 2021042909 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119692539 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119692607 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119692614 (epub) | ISBN 9781119692591 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Latin American literature--History and criticism. | Latin America--Intellectual life. | Latin America--Social life and customs. Classification: LCC PQ7081.A1 C555 2022 (print) | LCC PQ7081.A1 (ebook) | DDC 860.9/98--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042908LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042909
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Contents
1 Cover
8 CODA. Companion 2022: As the World Turns…
10 Part I Coloniality 1 Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 2 Writing Violence 3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes 6 Writing the Andes 7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca 9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 10 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches
11 Part II Transformations 11 Visual Representations of Tupac Amaru II 12 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 13 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge, Space, and Time in Mexico and South America 14 Slave Culture in Brazil, 1500s–1888 15 The Haitian Revolution
12 Part III The Emergence of National Communities in New Imperial Coordinates 16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca 17 Andrés Bello Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts 18 Reading National Subjects 19 The Muisca beyond Melancholy: Literature, Art, and the Colombian State
13 Part IV Uncertain Modernities 20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire 21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic 22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts 23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla 24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo 25 Latin American Poetry 26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández 27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo 28 Alterity and Absence Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector
