The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898)

Introduction: between colonialism and coloniality: colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias

PART I

Colonialism and Coloniality

1. Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies

Daniel Nemser

2. Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America

Karen Graubart

3. Mestizaje as dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies

Laura Catelli

4. Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo in Spanish America

José Antonio Mazzotti

5. An integrational approach to colonial semiosis

Galen Brokaw

6. Latin American and Caribbean Colonial Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

7. The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the Caribbean: of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities

Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert

8. Coloniality and Cinema

Juan Poblete

PART II

Knowledge Production and Networks

9. Old testament, New World: diluvialism and the Amerindian origins debate in the Enlightenment

Ruth Hill

10. The "cannibal cogito" and Brazilian antropofagia: radical heterogeneity or "family resemblance"?

Luís Madureira

11. Presumptions of empire: relapses, reboots, and reversions in the Transpacific networks of Iberian globalization

John D. Blanco

12. Imperial tension, colonial contours: Jesuits, slavery, and race within and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic

Hugh Cagle

13. The Caribbean conundrum: José Antonio Saco’s Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic

Eyda Merediz

　

PART III

Materialities and Archives

14. Material Encounters: Columbus’s Diario del primer viaje and the objects of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies

Raquel Albarrán

15. It comes with the territory: indigenous materialities and western knowledge

Gustavo Verdesio

16. Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico: religion, gender and power

Stephanie Kirk

17. The colonial Latin American archive: dispossession, ruins, reinvention

Anna More

18. Materialities and archives

Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez

19. Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century Spanish America

Mariselle Meléndez

20. Space, movement and writing in Colonial Río de la Plata

Loreley El Jaber

PART IV

Language, Translation and Beyond

21. The white legend: El Dorado, Pachakuti, and Walter Raleigh’s discovery of (Latin) America

Ralph Bauer

22. The agency of translation in colonial Latin America: re-thinking the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries

Larissa Brewer-García

23. Intercultural (mis)translations: colonial static and "authorship" in the Florentine Codex and the Relaciones geográficas of New Spain

Kelly McDonough

24. Defending the indefensible: Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty

Nicole Legnani

25. The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity in the Andes

Michael Horswell

Biography

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is Professor and Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami.

Santa Arias is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas.

One would have to look hard to find a better and more thorough, yet succinct, review of Colonial Studies in the U.S. than the one the editors of this volume provide. We are presented with a dynamic field full of tensions, contradictions—that is, alive—that have made it crucial for Latin American and Early Modern Studies, among others. From its inception to its recent connections to Latinx Studies, the writers deliver what the editors promise: a view into topics that have been the solid standard of the field, to new and promising areas.　

Who is an author under colonial conditions of production? What a theory of the frontiers says about colonialism? What if behind the standard language of the archive one finds Quechua, English and Muisca? To whom does this archive belong then? These pages remind us that even though we know much, we have still much to discover and that perhaps we might never know fully. The contributions to theoretical analysis are also important since, as the contributors show, the colonial field helps elucidate key concepts such as what is licit, what is an archive, extraction, extinction, the environment.　

Ivonne Del Valle, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley

 

Tensed by imperial designs, colonial violence, nationalist teleologies, colonial Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a multifaceted site of cultural and political interpellations and interventions that has made this contentious field one of the most productive intellectual traditions of the Global South, producing a rich array of critical concepts for the decolonization of culture.

Strategically organized in four overarching themes, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) showcases the most progressive and innovative research in the field and draws the paths for an effective critical engagement with the traces of a colonial past that is far from settled.

Luis Fernando Restrepo, University Professor, University of Arkansas