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Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas
Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas opens a window onto classical receptions across the Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone and Anglophone Americas during the early modern period, examining classical reception as a phenomenon in transhemispheric perspective for the first
Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America
Highlighting the relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American history Challenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North America in the global history of science, this volume reveals that the region has long been a center for scientific innovation and imagination. It highlights the important relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American history. Scholars from a variety of fields including literature, sociology, and geography bring to light many of the cultural exchanges that have produced and spread scientific knowledge from the early colonial period to the present day. Among many topics, these essays describe ideas ...
Black Legend
The gripping story of Afro-Argentine celebrity Raúl Grigera that also tells the untold history of Black Argentina.
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The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent scholarly attention., focused on complexities of female authorship in the political, religious, and intellectual context of colonial New Spain. This volume examines those areas of scholarship that illuminate her work, including her status as an iconic figure in Latin American and Baroque letters, popular culture in Mexico and the United States, and feminism. By addressing the multiple frameworks through whic...
Law, Literature and Political Philosophy in the Spanish Golden Age
This collection of articles, thoroughly documented, analyses particular aspects of the Spanish 16th and 17th centuries. It discusses a range of topics, including the Catholic reason of state, anti-Machiavellianism, and royal power and its limits, from the point of view of Golden Age authors. This is a work where literature, law theory and political philosophy combine their efforts to offer an unusual portrait of power in Spanish society during a time of deep change.
Modernidades contra-natura
This book explores the emergence of literary history and criticism in the Americas during the 18th century, focusing on natural history as a matrix for literary history and criticism, the geopolitical functions of literary criticism in the periodical press, and the recovery of manuscripts as a residual product of modernity. The study questions the epistemological conflicts provoked by the manuscript status of a considerable part of 18th-century scholarship, in which the projects of an American modernity appear subjugated by and yet resilient to the power of the European printing press.
Familias en el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo
En este libro no se pretende hacer un balance de aportaciones recientes, sino que, teniendo como eje de desarrollo el concepto de "familia" en un amplio sentido, demográfico y social, se intenta integrar lasperspectivas micro-analíticas -estudio de familias específicamente desarrolladas a ambos lados del Atlántico, familias virreinales, de la nobleza, la administración e incluso la Iglesia– y las regionales –de territorios especialmente afectados por el paso de sus habitantes a América–, al lado de la dimensión "macro" derivada de los estudios de las estructuras familiares en América y en la Península Ibérica y de las migraciones entre ambos espacios. Ese enfoque múltiple es...
