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Informationen zum Autor Sara Castro-Klaren is Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. She has been the recipient of several teaching awards. Most recently the Foreign Service Institute conferred upon her the title of "Distinguished Visiting Lecturer" (1993). She was appointed to the Fulbright Board of Directors by President Clinton in 1999. Her publications include El mundo mágico de José María Arguedas (1973), Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa (1990) and Escritura, transgresión y sujeto en la literatura latinoamericana (1989), Latin American Women Writers (1991) edited with Sylvia Molloy and Beatriz Sarlo and The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves: Writing Coloniality and Postcolonial Theory (2011). Klappentext A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century.Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry. This allows the reader to more accurately interpret the esteemed but demanding literature of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Diamela Eltit. Key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders, as in the cases of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, César Vallejo, and Gabriel García Márquez, are also discussed in historical and theoretical context. Additional essays engage the reader with in-depth discussions of forms and genres, and discussions of architecture, music, and film.This text provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors xi Editor's Acknowledgments xx Acknowledgments to Sources xxi Introduction 1 Sara Castro-Klaren Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking 12 Walter D. Mignolo Part I Coloniality 33 1 Mapping the Pre-Columbian Americas: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge 35 Gustavo Verdesio 2 Writing Violence 49 José Rabasa 3 The Popol Wuj: The Repositioning and Survival of Mayan Culture 68 Carlos M. López 4 The Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and Its Aftermath: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico 86 Rocío Cortés 5 Memory and "Writing" in the Andes 106 Sara Castro-Klaren 6 Writing the Andes 117 Sara Castro-Klaren 7 Court Culture, Ritual, Satire, and Music in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America 137 Lúcia Helena Costigan 8 Violence in the Land of the Muisca: Juan Rodríguez Freile's El carnero 146 Álvaro Félix Bolaños 9 The Splendor of Baroque Visual Arts 161 Lisa DeLeonardis 10 History of a Phantom 182 Francisco A. Ortega 11 Colonial Religiosity: Nuns, Heretics, and Witches 197 Kathryn Joy McKnight Part II Transformations 211 12 The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Anticolonialism and Protonationalism in Late Colonial Peru 213 Peter Elmore 13 The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788-1848 228 Franklin W. Knight 14 Th...
