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Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America
Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical “turn” known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and society. This volume proposes a hydro-critical approach to issues related to the colonial period. The analysed texts demonstrate not only the presence of water and oceanic trajectories as metaphorical devices, but the inherent implication of navigation, ports, islandic territories, drainage systems, floodings and the like in configuration of collective imaginaries, from colonial times to the presen...
Latin American Textualities
Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. “Texts,” therefore, encompass a broad variety of artifacts: traditional printed matter such as grammar books and newspaper articles; phonographs; graphic novels; ephemera such as fashion illustrations, catalogs, and postcards; and even virtual databases and cataloging systems.\ Latin American Textualities is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at textual history, textual artifacts, and digital textualities across Latin America from the colonial era to the present. Editors Heather J. Allen and Andrew R. Reynolds gather a wide range of scholars to investigate the region’s t...
Spectacular Wealth
Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potos�, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns' diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies' mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles displayed their social capital and cultural practices in spectacular performances. Tracing the multiple meanings and messages of civic festivals and religious feast days alike, Spectacular Wealth highlights the conflicting agendas at work in the organization, performance, and publication of festivals. Celebrants and writers in mining boomtowns presented themselves as far more than tributaries yielding mineral wealth to the Spanish and Portuguese empires, using festivals to redefine their reputations and to celebrate their cultural, spiritual, and intellectual wealth.
Sor Juana Inde la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico
Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical materials, the author Stephanie Kirk demonstrates how Sor Juana used her poetry and other works to inscribe herself within the discourses associated with these cultural institutions and discursive spheres and thus challenge the male exclusivity of their precepts and precincts. Kirk illustrates how Sor Juana subverted the masculine character of erudition, writing herself into an all-male community of ...
La construcción de la santidad en la región andina
Una de las primeras hagiografías de la periferia del imperio español en América del Sur, este libro es una mirada a la compleja relación entre los discursos religiosos y protonacionalistas que tuvieron lugar a principios del siglo XVIII en Quito. One of the first hagiographies from the periphery of the Spanish empire in South America, this book paints a fuller picture of the complex interweaving of religious and proto-nationalist discourses that emerged in early eighteenth-century Quito.
Forms of Relation
Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities. Goldmark analyzes these ties as forms of kinship forged outside of the well-studied paradigms of sex, biology, and procreation. He demonstrates how colonial actors—Spanish and Indigenous—vied for power when they argued that identity could be shaped by spiritual fatherhood, standardized education, or the regulation of doctrine. Forms of Relation illustrates why we must interrogate the dominant paradigms of mestizaje, heterosexuality, and biology that are too often left unchallenged in studies of Spanish colonialism, demonstrating how nonprocreative kinships shaped the Spanish colonial regime.
The Globe on Paper
How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works by Renaissance authors who made use of new sources and materials to produce narratives about the globe, working across different cultures and languages.
Die Bekehrung der Welt
«Machet zu Jüngern alle Völker!» Das Zeitalter der Entdeckungen und Eroberungen bescherte dem «Missionsbefehl» Jesu eine völlig neue Schubkraft. Der Religionshistoriker Bernhard Maier beschreibt eindrucksvoll, wie christliche Missionare von der spanischen Conquista über die Zeit der Kolonialreiche bis zur Entkolonialisierung Kulturen und Religionen auf der ganzen Welt transformierten – und nicht zuletzt auch das Christentum selbst. Seine souveräne Geschichte der weltweiten Mission bietet einen einzigartigen Schlüssel, um die Globalisierung der Kulturen in der Neuzeit besser zu verstehen. Im Frühjahr 1493 bestätigte Papst Alexander VI. das Anrecht der spanischen Könige auf die ...
Ángeles que cantan de continuo
Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist der Aufstieg und Fall der theologischen Legitimierung der gehobenen Poesie, die sich ab Ende des 16. und im Laufe des 17. Jahrhunderts im Vizekönigreich Peru vollzieht. Der Höhepunkt dieser Legitimierung liegt in dem Entstehen einer „Academia Antártica“ (Antarktische Akademie) in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ihr Ende wiederum beginnt in der zweiten Hälfte desselben Jahrhunderts, wenn Gelehrte religiöser Orden, vor allem Juan de Espinosa Medrano und seine Texte zur Verteidigung der Dichtung und der Wissenschaften, diese theologische Macht der weltlichen Poesie bestreiten und für ihre eigenen Predigten und Texten in Anspruch nehmen. ...
Nuestro tiple
Si en 2018 me hubieran preguntado cuál creía que sería el próximo de mis hermanos en morirse, jamás habría dicho que Jorge. Porque, claro, siempre sigue alguien, y en una familia como la nuestra ha sido común ese tipo de conjeturas. Ya se habían muerto mi padre, mi hermana María Clemencia y mi madre, pero Jorge era el último en mi lista. No solo por edad, tenía cincuenta y nueve y era el sexto de siete hijos,1 sino por vegetariano, abstemio y no fumador y, sobre todo, por ser soltero y no tener hijos. Jorge era el músico al que, desde que tengo memoria, le oí decir que no se "alquilaba". Por lo tanto, no sufría de estrés laboral. En los últimos años decidió que solo quería tocar tiple, componer, hacer concier-tos didácticos, investigar y escribir sobre este instrumento, y reiteraba con humildad que no le quedaba tiempo para nada más.
