A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

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A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Notes on Contributors

Editor’s Acknowledgments

CODA. Companion 2022: As the World Turns…

References

Second Thoughts on the Historical Foundations of Modernity/Coloniality and the Advent of Decolonial Thinking

I

II

III

Notes

1 Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge

Notes

References

2 Writing Violence

Writing that Discovers

Writing that Conquers

Writing that Converts

Writing Pictograms

Epilogue: Ignorantiam Invincibilem

NOTES

References and Further Reading. References

Further Reading

3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture

The Evangelizing Period

Modernity and “Ladinization”

Globalization versus Mayan Resurgence

References and Further Reading

4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico

The Colonial Enterprise of Conversion through Education

The Colegio’s Students and Textual Productions

The Struggles of the Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco

Evangelization and Its Consequences: A “Spiritual Conquest”?

The Diffusion of Writing and the Written outside the Colegio Letters of Appeal

The Emergence of an Intellectual Circle on Indigenous Matters

Native and Mestizo Intellectuals: The End of the Sixteenth Century and the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

The Legacy of the Colegio and the Jesuit Circle

References and Further Reading

Further Reading

Notes

5 Memory and “Writing” in the Andes

References and Further Reading

6 Writing the Andes

References and Further Reading

7 7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America

The Jesuits and Baroque Culture in Brazil

Neoclassicism, Arcadianism, and the Arcadias

References and Further Reading

8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero

El carnero as a Book of Brazen Tales

Juan Rodríguez Freile: A Proud Cristiano Viejo in a Spanish Colony

The Violent Land of El carnero

Rodríguez Freile’s Opportunity as A Farmer

El carnero, Its Commentators and the Indigenous Subject

References and Further Reading

9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts

Baroque Visual Arts in Their Sociopolitical Context

Cathedral and Parroquia

La Compañía, Cuzco (1651–68)

San Lorenzo De Los Carangas, Potosí (1728–1744)

The Baroque Retablo

The Imagineros of Quito

The Pictorial Baroque

Visual Narratives

The Art of Pilgrimage

The Work of Enchantment: Esquipulas and the Black Christ

The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos, Congonhas do Campo

New Directions in Scholarship

References and Further Reading. References

Further Reading

10 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches

Nuns and Other Religious Women and Their Communities

Heretics: Enemies of the Faith or of the Colonial Political Project?

Witches: Ritual Specialists and Their Engagement of Natural and Supernatural Powers

Connections and Conclusions

References and Further Reading

11 Visual Representations of Tupac Amaru II

References and Further Reading

12 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788 – 1848

Changes at the Macro Level

Caribbean Political Changes

Changes in Society

Caribbean Intellectual Life

The Commercial Revolution

Final Observations

References and Further Reading

13 The Philosopher-Traveler: The Secularization of Knowledge, Space, and Time in Mexico and South America

Introduction

Science and Imperial Power: Relative Autonomy

America in the Spatial and Temporal Maps of the Enlightenment

Conclusion

References and Further Reading

14 Slave Culture in Brazil, 1500s–1888

The Slave Trade to Brazil

Work and Work Cultures

Family Life

Religion

Healing and Other Cultural Practices

Resistance and Culture

Note

References

15 The Haitian Revolution

I

II

References and Further Reading

16 The Gaucho and the Gauchesca

Gauchos and Caudillos

The Leathern Age

The Era of the Patriadas

The Gauchesca Poetry

The Gauchesca Cycle

Fading Out in the City

The Gaucho in the National Imaginary

References and Further Reading

17 Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Manuel González Prada, and Teresa de la Parra: Four Writers and Four Concepts of Nationhood

Andrés Bello (1781–1865)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811−88)

Manuel González Prada, 1844–1918

Teresa de la Parra (1890–1936)

References and Further Reading

18 Reading National Subjects

The Argument

Nation and Representation I

Nation and Representation II

The Civil Sphere I: Imagining the Nation in Newspapers and Books

Reading newspapers and books

The Civil Sphere II: Imagining the Nation in Letters, Albums and Tertulias

The State Sphere and Governmentality

Conclusion: Reading, Subjectivity, and Power

References and Further Reading

19 The Muisca beyond Melancholy: Literature, Art, and the Colombian State

The Muisca (Chibcha) Past and Present

Monumental America

Savage States

Bachué: The Nation’s Erotic (Mo)Other

La Violencia

Brecht in the Andes

Multicultural Murk

A Supplemental History

References

Notes

20 Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire

French Latin Americanism and Spanish Academicism

Pan-Americanism and Cultural Monumentalism

The End of the Empire and the Rise of Spanish-American Literature as a Field of Study

Challenging Institutionalized Philology

References and Further Reading

21 Machado de Assis: The Meaning of Sardonic

References and Further Reading

Notes

22 The Mexican Revolution and the Plastic Arts

Introduction

1910–20: Origins

Bad Beginnings

Siqueiros and the Elaboration of a Muralist Avant-Garde

Rivera and the Representation of the People

Christianity and enumeration

Peoplehood and the Rise of National Ethnography

An Overdetermined History

José Clemente Orozco

Muralism and the Basic Question of Western Art

References and Further Reading

Notes

23 Anthropology, Pedagogy, and the Various Modulations of Indigenismo: Amauta, Tamayo, Arguedas, Sabogal, Bonfil Batalla

Arguedas and Positivist-Liberal Discourse

Tamayo, Sabogal, and the Discourse on the Autochthonous

Peruvian Indigenismo and the Avant-Gardes

Bonfil Batalla’s Anti-Colonialism

References and Further Reading

24 Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo

References and Further Reading

Notes

25 Latin American Poetry

The Twilight of the Idols

Modernism and the Avant-garde

Surrealism and Elementalism

Art and Politics

The Cuban Revolution

Poetry and the Conversational Style

Gender and Ethnicity in the Poetic Canon

References and Further Reading

26 Literature between the Wars: Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández

Macedonio Fernández (1874–1952)

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

Felisberto Hernández (1902–64)

References and Further Reading

27 Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo

References and Further Reading

28 Alterity and Absence: Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector

Enormous Invisibility

Suspended in the Sertão

Unthinking Idealization

The Left and the Center

Speaking without a Voice

As For the Future

References and Further Reading

29 Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit

Introduction

Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938)

Rachel De Queiroz (1910–2003)

Rosario Castellanos (1925–74)

Nancy Morejón (1944–)

Elena Poniatowska (1932-)

Luisa Valenzuela (1938–)

Diamela Eltit (1949–)

References and Further Reading

30 Caribbean Philosophy

Natural Poetics, Forced Poetics

The Situation of the Spoken

Creole and Landscape

Convergence

Cross-Cultural Poetics

Complementary Note Concerning a Pseudo-Encounter

“The Novel of the Americas”

Notes

31 Uncertain Modernities: Amerindian Epistemologies and the Reorienting of Culture

Plebeian Avant-garde: The Antihegemonic Critical Consciousness of an Andean Decolonizing Debate

References and Further Reading

32 Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority

References

Notes

33 Affectivity beyond “Bare Life”: On the Non-Tragic Return of Violence in Latin American Film

References and Further Reading

34 Photography in Latin America: The Case for Another Photography

History

Approaches: Consumption, Mass, Class, Group

Photographs from a Vast Archive

References

35 Rock and Pop across Cultural Boundaries: The Story of a Tension between Mimicry and Autochthony

References

Notes

36 Film, Indigenous Video, and the Lettered City’s Visual Economy Revisited

The Lettered City and Its Visual Economy

Cinema’s Imperial Gaze

Third Cinema

Marketing Diversity

Indigenous Video and the Decolonization of the Lettered City

References and Further Reading

37 Postmodern Theory and Cultural Criticism in Spanish America and Brazil

Notes

38 Plants, People, and the Ecological Imagination in Latin America

Talking with Trees: Canaima, 1935

Silvina Ocampo’s “Plant-Thinking”

Conclusion

References

Notes

39 Atmospheres of the Marvelous: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World

Bubbles of Wonder: Boom and Burst

Coda: Towards a Postcritical Latin Americanism

References and Further Reading

Notes

40 The Indigenous “Contact Film” and Its Afterlives in Latin American Cinema

Museification, Catastrophe, and the Thanatological Preservation of the Indigenous Image

Documentary Remediations of the Contact Film

Reflexivity and Subjectivity in Fictional Revisions of Contact

Conclusion

References and Further Reading

Notes

41 Femicide and Feminist Performance

References

Notes

42 Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture

Intimacy and Distance in Latin American Literature of the Digital Era

Precarity and Digital Potentiality: The Case of Peru’s Micromuseo

Thinking Beyond Yet Limited by Latin American Stereotypes on Netflix

Conclusion: Latin American Art and the Digital Paradigm

References

Notes

43 From Human Rights to Rights beyond the Human

References

Note

44 Imagining Amazonia Cartographically1

Making Space for Place

What the Novel Map Does Not See

Counter-Mapping Amazonia

References

Notes

45 The Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects1

Affect Theory and Schweblin’s Kentukis

On Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth: Objects as Critique (Or Postcritique)

On Ojeda’s Nefando: Abject Objects and Affective Saturation

Conclusion

References

Notes

46 Wars over Water:

Water as Object: The Struggle over the Meaning of Water

Eco-Perspectivism and Latin American Subaltern Studies

Beyond Metaphysical Instrumentalism: Marx on Metabolism as Material Exchange

Eco-Perspectivism, World-System, Modes of Exchange, and World Ecology

Notes

Index

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José Rabasa teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. His publications include Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (1993) and Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of New Mexico and Florida and The Legacy of Conquest (2000). He is in the process of collecting together into one volume his numerous articles on postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and is completing a study of the intersection of pictography, orality, and alphabetical writing in Nahuatl colonial texts.

Juan G. Ramos is an associate professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) where he teaches courses in both Spanish and English on Latin American and world literature. He is the author of Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts (University of Florida Press, 2018) and coeditor of Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures (Palgrave, 2016). He has also published on twentieth-century Latin American poetry, fiction, and film with a particular emphasis on the Andes. He has received a fellowship at the National Humanities Center (2021–2022) to continue working on his current book project on Andean modernismos.

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