Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC STUDIES
COMPANION TO COLONIAL LATIN
AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
(1492–1898)
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 compara-
tive 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 Latin America and the Caribbean 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.
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.
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THE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC
STUDIES COMPANION TO
COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
(1492–1898)
Edited by
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
and Santa Arias
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments x
Contributors xiii
Between colonialism and coloniality: Colonial Latin American
and Caribbean studies today 1
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias
PART I
Colonialism and coloniality 41
1 Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies 43
Daniel Nemser
2 Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America 57
Karen Graubart
3 Mestizaje as a dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies 71
Laura Catelli
4 Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo
in Spanish America 85
José Antonio Mazzotti
5 An integrational approach to colonial semiosis 99
Galen Brokaw
6 Latin American and Caribbean colonial studies and/in the decolonial turn 117
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
vii
Contents
7 The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies
in the Caribbean: of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities 132
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
8 Coloniality and cinema 147
Juan Poblete
PART II
Knowledge production and networks 163
9 Old Testament, New World: diluvialism and the Amerindian
origins debate in the Enlightenment 165
Ruth Hill
10 The “cannibal cogito” and Brazilian antropofagia: radical
heterogeneity or “family resemblance”? 183
Luís Madureira
11 Presumptions of empire: relapses, reboots, and reversions in the transpacific
networks of Iberian globalization 199
John D. Blanco
12 Imperial tensions, colonial contours: Jesuits, slavery, and race within
and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic 215
Hugh Cagle
13 The Caribbean conundrum: José Antonio Saco’s Hispanic archive
and the Black Atlantic 231
Eyda Merediz
PART III
Materialities and archives 247
14 Material encounters: Columbus’s Diario del primer viaje and the objects
of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies 249
Raquel Albarrán
15 It comes with the territory: indigenous materialities
and Western knowledge 267
Gustavo Verdesio
viii
Contents
16 Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico: religion, gender and power 281
Stephanie Kirk
17 The colonial Latin American archive: dispossession, ruins, reinvention 295
Anna More
18 Materialities and archives 309
Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez
19 Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century
Spanish America 328
Mariselle Meléndez
20 Spatiality and discourse in the region of La Plata 344
Loreley El Jaber
PART IV
Language, translation and beyond 361
21 The white legend: El Dorado, pachacuti, and Walter Raleigh’s
discovery of (Latin) America 363
Ralph Bauer
22 The agency of translation in colonial Latin America: rethinking
the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries 379
Larissa Brewer-García
23 Intercultural (mis)translations: colonial static and “authorship”
in the Florentine Codex and the relaciones geográficas of New Spain 393
Kelly McDonough
24 Defending the indefensible: Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty 406
Nicole Legnani
25 The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity
in the Andes 419
Michael Horswell
Index 433
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