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

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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) brings together an international team of scholars to explore new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for the study of colonialism. Using four overarching themes, the volume examines a wide array of critical issues, key texts, and figures that demonstrate the significance of Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean across national and regional traditions and historical periods. This invaluable resource will be of interest to students and scholars of Spanish and Latin American studies examining colonial Caribbean and Latin America at the intersection of cultural and historical studies; transatlantic, postcolonial and decolonial studies; and critical approaches to archives and materiality. This timely volume assesses the impact and legacy of colonialism and coloniality. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Contributors Between colonialism and coloniality: Colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today Introduction The invention of the Latin American and Caribbean colonial period The Latinx Americanization of colonial studies Colonial Latin America Colonial Latinx studies Postcolonial and decolonial Caribbean studies and Latin American studies 8 Inter- and transdisciplinary turns in colonial studies Contributions in this volume Notes Works cited Part I: Colonialism and coloniality Chapter 1: Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies Periodization Domination Mestizaje From race to racialization Conclusion Notes Works cited Chapter 2: Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America Ethnohistory Indigenous self-governance Intermediaries Indigenous intellectuals Black intellectuals Conclusion: toward a new politics of the Afro-indigenous colonial world Works cited Chapter 3: Mestizaje as a dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies The mestizaje strategy and its effects Mapping mestizaje as an object of study Concluding remarks and critical considerations on mestizaje as an object of study Notes Works cited Chapter 4: Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo in Spanish America Defining the Criollo The problem of the “nation” The case of Lima Independence and the prevalence of criollo identity Notes Works cited Chapter 5: An integrational approach to colonial semiosis Introduction Mesoamerican iconography Andean Quipu A media-studies approach to the orality-literacy binary Rational and aesthetic modes of communication Aesthesis and rationality in indigenous American sign systems Conclusion Works cited Chapter 6: Latin American and Caribbean colonial studies and/in the decolonial turn Aníbal Quijano Sylvia Wynter Notes Works cited Chapter 7: The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the Caribbean: Of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities Introduction Ecoreading the colonial classics: of Raleigh, biodiversity and river landscapes The mute dogs of the conquered On ecotones and the death of rivers Conclusion Works cited Chapter 8: Coloniality and cinema The cinematic gaze Coloniality Indianizing film The national critique of cinematic colonialism Coloniality in films De/colonizing the labor of film Knowledge and subjectivity: the colonization of the imaginary Knowledge and subjectivity: the indianization of the conquistadors Notes Works cited Part II: Knowledge production and networks Chapter 9: Old Testament, New World: Diluvialism and the Amerindian origins debate in the Enlightenment Introduction Theory of the earth Critique of theories of Amerindian origins Llano Zapata’s theory of Amerindian origins Conclusion Notes Works cited Chapter 10: The “cannibal cogito” and Brazilian antropofagia Radical heterogeneity or “family resemblance”? Counter-discourse or “misplaced idea”? Antropofagia and the “cannibal cogito” Anthropophagy and perspectivism The “women’s portion”: gender and sexual cannibalism Notes Works cited Chapter 11: Presumptions of empire: Relapses, reboots, and reversions in the transpacific networks of Iberian globalization Terra Australis, 1609: in lieu of an Ocean Manila-Macao-Mexico, 1565: in lieu of a network Hagåtña/Agaña, 1695: in lieu of Christianity Alta California, 1794: in lieu of a (vanishing) colonial subject Notes Works cited Chapter 12: Imperial tensions, colonial contours: Jesuits, slavery, and race within and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic Stray cases Departures The case for Vieira Bodies, souls, empires Toward an imperial history of slavery and race in Brazil Note Works cited Chapter 13: The Caribbean conundrum: José Antonio Saco’s Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic José Antonio Saco and his times Entering the archive Recovering Bartolomé de las Casas Theorizations in the Spanish Caribbean The Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic Works cited Part III: Materialities and archives Chapter 14: Material encounters: Columbus’s Diario del primer viaje and the objects of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies Material culture, materiality, and colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies: an overview The materiality of Columbus’s first Atlantic crossing Rescates and the material culture of the first contact Colonial object ontologies Notes Works cited Chapter 15: It comes with the territory: Indigenous materialities and Western knowledge Indigenous material cultures Monumentality, architecture, and the organization and exploitation of the land Objects The materiality of the indigenous past (and present) in Uruguay Notes Works cited Chapter 16: Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico: Religion, gender and power Scholarship trends on Creole religion, knowledge and gender Balbuena: knowledge production and religion in Grandeza mexicana Andrés Pérez de Ribas and Juan Antonio de Oviedo: Creole Jesuit masculinity and spiritual exemplarity Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora: religious hierarchies of race and gender Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: gendering Creole knowledge Conclusion Notes Works cited Chapter 17: The colonial Latin American archive: Dispossession, ruins, reinvention Archival dispossession Archival ruins Archival reinvention Conclusion: archival reading, archival writing Notes Works cited Chapter 18: Materialities and archives Colonial materialities and the history of art Styles and nomenclature in colonial art and architecture The material turn and enconchados : a case study Concluding thoughts: colonial archives Notes Works cited Chapter 19: Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century Spanish America The spatial nature of ports Re-envisioning ports: containing chaos, disorder, and freedom Managing the southernmost ports and the racialization of space Final remarks Notes Works cited Chapter 20: Spatiality and discourse in the region of La Plata Mud and hunger With their people as with their women The Guaraní, encomienda and reduction The Treaty of Madrid (1750) and the case of the Guaraní wars: toward a policy of mobility Conclusions Notes Works cited Part IV: Language, translation and beyond Chapter 21: The white legend: El Dorado, pachacuti, and Walter Raleigh’s discovery of (Latin) America The Black and the Gold Legend The Black and the White Legend Walter Raleigh and pachacuti Notes Works cited Chapter 22: The agency of translation in colonial Latin America: Rethinking the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries Reflections on method Archives Notes Works cited Chapter 23: Intercultural (mis)translations: Colonial static and “authorship” in the Florentine Codex and the relaciones geográficas of New Spain Pluricultural and plurilingual New Spain Bilingual/bicultural intermediaries (Mis)translations: double mistaken identity, colonial static, and untranslatability The Florentine Codex (General History of the Things of New Spain) 1550s–1570s The 1577 relaciones geográficas surveys Conclusions Notes Works cited Chapter 24: Defending the indefensible: Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty Defense: spatial, temporal and ethical axes Defense as the best offense Local cosmovisions Defending and defining origins Defending the indefensible Conclusions Notes Works cited Chapter 25: The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity in the Andes Queer tropes of gender and sexuality Third-gender performativity, the Andean feminine and primordial androgyny Contemporary decolonial aesthetics: Travestis and the Chuquichinchay in visual and performance art Notes Works cited Index