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THE 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. ROUTLEDGE COMPANIONS TO HISPANIC AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies are state-of-the-art surveys of the key areas within Hispanic and Latin American Studies, providing accessible yet thorough assessments of key problems, themes, and recent developments in research. Series Editor: Brad Epps, University of Cambridge THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE HISPANIC ENLIGHTENMENT Edited by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, Mónica Bolufer Peruga, and Catherine M. Jaffe THE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC STUDIES COMPANION TO NINETEENTH- CENTURY SPAIN Edited by Elisa Martí-López THE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC STUDIES COMPANION TO COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (1492–1898) Edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias For more information about this series please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Companions-to-Hispanic-and-Latin-American- Studies/book-series/RCHLAS THE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC STUDIES COMPANION TO COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (1492–1898) Edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias SERIES EDITOR: BRAD EPPS SPANISH LIST ADVISOR: JAVIER MUÑOZ-BASOLS First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library cataloguing-in-publication data A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress cataloging-in-publication data Names: Martínez-San Miguel, Yolanda, editor. | Arias, Santa, editor. Title: The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) / edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias. Description: London; New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. | Series: Routledge companions to Hispanic and Latin American studies | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020022714 (print) | LCCN 2020022715 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138092952 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315107189 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Colonies--America. | Latin America--History--To 1830. | Latin America--History--1830-1898. | Caribbean Area--History--To 1810. | Caribbean Area--History--1810-1945. Classification: LCC F1410 .R68 2021 (print) | LCC F1410 (ebook) | DDC 980/.01--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022714 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022715 ISBN: 978-1-138-09295-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-10718-9 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by SPi Global, India Malena Rodríguez Castro, Emilie L. Bergmann, Georgina Sabat-Rivers, Rosa M. Cabrera, and Margarita Zamora—mentors, “makers” and friends—the collabora- tive spirit animating this volume is a tribute to their “enseñanzas.” 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 ix
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