Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices

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Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America. It demonstrates ways of making sense of the past through approaches that aggregate more than they dissect and suggest more than they conclude. Sidestepping more conventional approaches that divide content by subject, source, or historiographical "turn," the editors seek to take readers beyond these divisions and deep into the process of historical interpretation. The essays in this volume focus on what questions to ask, what sources can reveal, what stories historians can tell, and how a single source can be interpreted in many ways. Cover Halftitle Title page Copyright Dedication Book epigraph Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction by Karen Melvin and Syvia Sellers-Garcia Part One. Conceiving Questions Chapter One. Asking Questions in the Restless Discipline of Context by Karen Melvin Chapter Two. Double Vision: Dichotomies in the Study of Latin America by Paul Ramirez Chapter Three. Making Sense of Geographies: Regionalism in the Study of Latin American History by Nicole Von Germeten Chapter Four. Moving across Disciplines: Context, Theory, and Colonial Sources by Ivonne del Valle Part Two. Conversing with Sources Chapter Five. Quiet Voices and Laconic Sources: A Synoptic Approach to Wills by Brianna Leavitt-Alcantara Chapter Six. Researching Beyond Institutional Documents: The Power of Suggestion by Rachel Moore Chapter Seven. What’s in an Object: Plato, Aristotle, and the Virgin of Copacabana by Sean F. McEnroe Chapter Eight. Thinking at the Margins: Subalterns and the Spanish American Past by Kristin Huffine Part Three. Envisioning Histories Chapter Nine. Telling Stories of Continuity and Change by Jose Efugio de la Torre Curiel Chapter Ten. Foregrounding Marginal Voices: Writing Women’s Stories Using Solicitation Trials by Jessica Delgado Chapter Eleven. Writing Style and Audience by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia Part Four. Reckoning and Re-reckoning: Same Source, Different Perspectives Chapter Twelve. Confession and the Art of Reading by Matthew D. O’Hara Chapter Thirteen. Solicitation Stories: Reading Confession between History and Literature by Seth Kimmel Chapter Fourteen. Ritual, Intimacy, and Emotion in Sacramental Spaces by Jennifer Scheper Hughes Chapter Fifteen. A Confusion of Tongues or the Want of Schooling: A Carmelite Vision of Humble Penitents by Sean F. McEnroe Chapter Sixteen. Mendacious Texts: The Art of Confessional Dissimulation by Paul Ramirez Chapter Seventeen. Advice and Warnings for New Confessors by a Disalced Carmelite Friar and Priest translated by Karen Melvin, Paul Ramirez, and Sylvia Sellers-Garcia Afterword by Kenneth Mills Contributors Index