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 García Márquez.
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 Jorge Luis Borges, Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, César Vallejo, and Gabriel García Márquez
Special attention is paid to key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders
Additional essays engage the reader with in-depth discussions of forms and genres, and discussions of architecture, music and film
Each chapter includes a selected bibliography and recommendations for further reading Part I: COLONIALITY
1. Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Caribbean and Continental America: Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan)
2. Aztec Mexican Pictorial Histories: Records Without Words: Elizabeth Boone (Tulane University)
3. Writing Violence: Jose Rabasa (University of California at Berkeley)
4. The Popol Vuh: Repositioning and Survival of Maya Culture: Carlos Lopez (University of West Virginia University - Marshall)
5. The Colegio de Tlatelolco: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico: Rocio Cortes (University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh)
6. Memory and "Writing" in the Andes I: Castro-Klaren (Johns Hopkins University) 7. Memory and "Writing" in the Andes II: Sara Castro-Klaren (Johns Hopkins University)
8. Court Culture, Ritual, Satire and Music in Colonial Spanish America and Brazil: Lucia Cóstigan (Ohio State University- Columbus)
9. El carnero: Felix Bolaños (University of Florida at Gainesville)
10. Splendors of the Baroque Visual Arts: Lisa DeLeonardis (Johns Hopkins University)
11. Returns of the Baroque: Francisco Ortega (University of Wisconsin - Madison) 12. Colonial Religiosity: Convents, Nuns, Witches, and Heretics: Kathryn MacKnight (Univeristy of New Mexico)
Part II: TRANSFORMATIONS
13. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anti-colonialism and the Proto-nationalism in Late Colonial Andes: Peter Elmore (University of Colorado - Boulder)
14. The British and French Caribbean: The Antilles in the Age of the Enlightenment: Franklin Knight (Johns Hopkins University)
15. The Philosopher Traveler, Secularization and Learning in Spanish America and Brazil: Leila Gomez (University of Colorado - Boulder)
16. The Haitian Revolution: Sybille Fisher (New York University)
Part III: THE EMERGENCE OF NATIONAL COMMUNITIES IN NEW IMPERIAL COORDINATES
17. The Gaucho and the Gauchesca: Abril Trigo (Ohio State University- Columbus)
18. Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood Projects of Nation: Nicolas Shumway (University of Texas)
19. Reading National Subjects: Juan Poblete (University of California - Santa Cruz)
20. For Love and Money: of Potboilers and Precautions: Doris Sommer (Harvard University)
Part IV: UNCERTAIN MODERNITIES
21. Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire: Fernando Degiovanni (Wesleyan University)
22. Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic: Tod Garth (U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis)
23. War Machine: The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts: Horacio Legras (Georgetown University)
24. Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla: Javier Sanjines (University of Michigan)
25. Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo: Fernando Rosenberg (Yale University)
26. Latin American Poetry: Stephen Hart (University College of London)
27. Literature Between the Wars: Filisberto, Macedonio and Borges: Adriana Bergero (University of California - Los Angeles)
28. Narrative and Deep Histories: Arguedas, Rulfo, Gilberto Freire, Roa Bastos: Adriana Johnson (University of California - Irvine)
29. The Boom of the Spanish American Fiction and The 1960's Revolutions (1958-1975): Gerald Martin (University of Pittsburgh)
30. The Brazilian Difference: Guimares Rosa, Antônio Callado, Nélida Piñón, Clarise Lispector: Elizabeth Marchant (University of California - Los Angeles)
31. Feminine/Feminist Insurrection: Orphée, Valenzuela, Eltit, Parente Cunha, Garro, Castellanos, Poniatowska, Morejón: Adriana Bergero and Elizabeth Marchant
32. Caribbean Philosophy: Eduard Glissant
Part V: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES
33. Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Re-Orienting of Culture: Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh)
34. Testimonio Subalternity, and Narrative Authority: John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh)
35. Narrative and Film: Herman Herlinghaus (University of Pittsburgh)
36. Post-Modern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil: Ileana Rodriguez (Ohio State University)
37. Post- Utopian Imaginaries. Narrating Uncertainty: Kurlat Ares (Johns Hopkins University)
38. Cultural Modalities and Cross Cultural Connections: Rock Across Class And Ethnic Identities: Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)
39. Film, Indigenous Video, and the Visual Economy of the Lettered City: Freya Schiwy (University of California at Riverside)
Bibliography
Index