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LITERARY CULTURES OF LATIN AMERICA Edited by Mario J. Valdes and Djelal Kadir TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME ONE CONFIGURATIONS OF LITERARY CULTURE Series Overview: Literary History-Comparatively Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdes Preface Mario J. Valdes, Djelal Kadir Introduction Luisa Campuzano PART ONE. PARAMETERS OF LITERARY CULTURE Introduction: Parameters of Literary Culture Mario J. Valdes I. Geographic Factors and the Formation of Cultural Terrain for Literary Production 1. The Formation of a Cultural Territory Hervé Théry 2. From the New Spain of Cortés to the Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean Mosaic Alain Musset 3. The Andean Countries Jean-Paul Deler 4. Brazil: A Continent, An Archipelago Hervé Théry 5. The Southern Cone Sébastian Velut 6. The Amazon: The Forgotten Heart Emmanuel Lézy II. Demographics and the Formation of Cultural Centers 7. Demography, Language, and Cultural Centers Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz III. Linguistic Diversity of Latin American Literary Cultures 8. Linguistic Diversity in Mexico Beatriz Garza Cuarón 9. [Document: Tzotzil Text] Juan González Hernández 10. [Document: Zapotec Text] Santiago Fábian L. 11. Linguistic Diversity in Venezuela Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller 12. Linguistic Diversity in Colombia Jon Landaburu 13. Linguistic Diversity in the Andean Countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru) and Paraguay Willem F. H. Adelaar 14. The Portuguese Language in Brazil Marianne Akerberg IV. History of the Production of Literary Cultures in Colonial Latin America 18. The Production of Literary Culture in New Spain José Joaquin Blanco 19. The Context of Literary Culture in the Caribbean Jorge Luis Camacho 20. The Foundations of Brazilian Literary Culture Tania Franco Carvalhal 21. Literary Culture during the Peruvian Viceroyalty Luis Millones V. Access and Participation in the Literary Cultures of Latin America 22. Social History of the Latin American Writer Mario J. Valdés 23. Reading as a Historical Practice in Latin America: The First Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century Juan Poblete 24. Literary Nationalism in Latin America Leyla Perrone-Moisés PART TWO. FROM THE MARGINS OF LITERARY HISTORY Introduction Cynthia Steele, Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Marlyse Meyer, and Beatriz Resende I. Configurations of Socioeconomic, Racial, and Ethnic Alterity in Literary History 26. Poverty in the History of Literary Cultures Kathleen Newman 27. First Nations, First Writers: Indigenous Mexican Literary History Cynthia Steele 28. Recent Mayan Incursions into Guatemalan Literary Historiography Gail Ament 29. Andean Indigenous Expression: Resisting Marginality Regina Harrison 30. Brazil's Indigenous Textualities Claudia Neiva de Matos 31. Afro-Hispanic Writers in Latin American Literary History Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal 32. Black Presence in Brazilian Literature: From the Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century Heloisa Toller Gomes, Gizelda Melo do Nascimento and Leda Maria Martins 33. Jewish Literary Culture in Spanish America Saúl Sosnowski 34. Displacement and Disregard: Brazilian-Jewish Writing and the Search for Narrative Identity Nelson H. Vieira II. Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Historical Formation of the Cultural Imaginary 37. Women Writers during the Viceroyalty Josefina Muriel 38. Saints or Sinners?: Life Writings and Colonial Latin American Women Kathleen Ann Myers 39. Mystics and Visionaries: Women's Writing in Eighteenth-Century Portuguese America Leila Mezan Algranti 40. Exclusions in Latin American Literary History Debra A. Castillo 41. Women Writing in Nontraditional Genres María Elena de Valdés 42. Brazilian Women: Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries Lucia Helena, Sylvia Oroz, Sylvia Paixao 43. Constructing the Place of Woman in Brazil's Northeastern Region Luzilá Gonçalves Ferreira 44. Writing against the Grain: An Overview of Twentieth-Century Lesbian Literature in Latin America Elena M. Martínez 45. Secrets and Truths Daniel Balderston 46. Notes toward a History of Homotextuality in Brazilian Literature Denilson Lopes PART THREE. PLURALITY OF DISCOURSE IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE I. Political, Scientific, and Religious Discourses Introduction: Political, Scientific, and Religious Discourses Eneida Maria de Souza and Raúl Antelo 50. The Rhetoric of Latin American Nationalism from the Colonial Period to Independence Silvia Delfino 51. The Rhetoric of Citizenship in Modernity Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico 52. The Struggle Over the Printed Word: The Catholic Church in Brazil and Social Discourse Aparecida Paiva 53. Scientific Discourse in Brazil and Intellectual Exchange Rachel Esteves Lima 54. Bio-Policies Undergoing Transformation: Bodies and Ideas of American Identity Claudia Gilman II. Orality and Literature Introduction: Eugenia Meyer 56. The History of Oral Literature in Mexico Leonardo Manrique Castañeda 57. African Orality in the Literary Culture of the Caribbean Luz María Martínez Montiel 58. Orality and Literature in the Peruvian Andean Zone José Antonio Giménez Micó 59. Argentina, Chile, Uruguay: A History of Literary Orality Eva Grosser Lerner and Eduardo Lucio Molina y Vedia 60. Oral Literature in Brazil Jerusa Pires Ferreira 61. Textuality and Territoriality in Brazilian Oral Discourse Ivete Lara Camargos Walty III. The Multiplicity and Diversity of Discourses and Theatricalities Introduction: Juan Villegas 62. The Theater in Prehispanic America Juan Villegas 63. Contemporary Mayan Theater Tamara Underiner 64. Plurality and Diversity of Theater Discourse Juan Villegas 65. Afro-Latin American Theater Juan Villegas 66. Theatrical Forms and Their Social Dimensions in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Joao Roberto Faria 67. Dramaturgies and Theatricalities: Aspects of the Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literary Scene Maria Helena Werneck, Victor Hugo Adler Pereira IV. Transformations in Popular Culture Introduction: Mario J. Valdés 68. Laughing through One's Tears: Popular Culture in Mexico Carlos Monsiváis 69. Mass Culture and Literature in Latin America Ana María Amar Sánchez 70. Literatura de cordel: Literature for Market and Voice Idelette Muzart Fonseca dos Santos 71. Religious Celebrations in Brazilian Cultural History Marlyse Meyer 72. Carnival Félix Coluccio and Marta Isabel Coluccio 73. Popular Memory and the Collective Imagination in Latin American Soap Operas Jesús Martín-Barbero 74. The Popular in the Confused Republics? Carlos Monsiváis V. Cinema: Cultural Dialogues and the Process of Modernity 76. Cultural Dialogues and the Process of Modernity Julianne Burton-Carvajal and Zuzana M. Pick LITERARY CULTURES OF LATIN AMERICA Edited by Mario J. Valdés and Djelal Kadir VOLUME TWO INSTITUTIONAL MODES AND CULTURAL MODALITIES VI. Introduction Walter D. Mignolo VII. PART ONE. CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS VIII. IX. Introduction Lisa Block de Behar and Tania Franco Carvalhal I. Books and Readers in Latin America 1. Books, Myths, and the Reading Public in Spanish America during the Sixteenth Century Luigi Avonto 2. The Book in Brazil: Libraries and Presses José Mindlin 3. [Document: Oswald: Free Book] Augusto de Campos II. Cultural Institutions 8. Cultural Institutions in Spanish America K. Alfons Knauth 9. Cultural Institutions and Intellectual Life in Brazil Luiz Roberto Cairo 10. Cultural Models of Seventeenth-Century Luso-Brazil Practices of Representation Joao Adolfo Hansen 11. Latin American Museums: Text, Discourse, and Meaning Maria de Lourdes Parreiras-Horta 12. Education in Brazil: Omissions, Advances, and Future Perspectives Célio da Cunha 13. Brazilian Literature in the 1970s: Censorship and the Culture Industry Cintia Schwantes and Rildo Cosson 14. State Sponsorship and Control of Publishing in Brazil Fábio Lucas III. Cultural Journalism 16. Cultural Journalism in Spanish America: An Overview Anibal González-Pérez 17. Criticism and Literature in Brazilian Periodicals of the Romantic Period Luiz Roberto Cairo 18. From Journalism to Foundational Text: Os Sertoes (Rebellion in the Backlands) Jorge Coli 19. Literary Journalism in Brazil during the First Half of the Twentieth Century Ivia Alves 20. Criticism and Cultural Journalism in Contemporary Brazil Maria Lucia de Barrios Camargo IV. Translation as Cultural Institution 23. Translation as a Literary Institution Laszlo Scholz 24. The Development of a Translation Paideuma and Poetics in Brazil: The Campos Brothers Else Ribeiro Pires Vieira PART TWO. TEXTUAL MODELS AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS X. Introduction Randolph Pope and Flora Sussekind XI. Form and Figuration 27. The Book and the Format of the Novel Jussara Menezes Quadros 28. The Representation of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Narrative and Iconography Luz Aurora Pimentel XII. Poetic Models and the Cultural Imaginary 29. Poetic Exchange and Epic Landscapes Gwen Kirkpatrick 30. An Emerging Poetry Noe Jitrik XIII. Forms of Discourse in Testimonio, Autobiography and Letter Writing 31. In the Web of Reality: Latin American Testimonio Elzbieta Sklodowska 32. [Document: From the Spoken to the Written Word] Elena Poniatowska 33. The Epistolary Genre and Brazilian Modernism Julio Castañón Guimaraes XIV. The Essay and its Corollaries 35. The Comparative Drive in the Latin American Essay Randolph Pope 36. Satire and Temporal Heterogeneity Flora Sussekind 37. The Sermon in the Seventeenth Century Alcir Pécora XV. V. The Novel 39. The Feuilleton and European Models in the Making of the Brazilian Novel Marlyse Meyer 40. Novel and Journalism: Strategic Interchanges Anibal González Pérez 41. The Making of the Latin American Novel Roberto González Echevarria PART THREE. The Cultural Centers of Latin America XVI. Introduction Eduardo de Faria Coutinho and Victoria Peralta Northern Mexico and the Border 42. Threshold without Frontier: Cultural Limits and Cultural Intervals on the Mexico-U.S. Border José Manuel Valenzuela Mesoamerica 43. Enlightened Neighborhood: Mexico City as a Cultural Center Carlos Monsivais 44. The Cultural Centers of Central America Nicasio Urbina and Laura Barbas Rhoden The Caribbean Introduction Marcelino Canino Salgado 45. Havana Luisa Campuzano 46. Santo Domingo: Center of Innovation, Transition, and Change William Luis 47. Puerto Rico: Caribbean Cultural Center Marcelino Canino Salgado 48. Caracas Alexis Márquez Rodríguez XVII. IV. Andean Region XVIII. Introduction Consuelo Triviño Anzola 49. Lima: A Blurred Centrality Sara Castro-Klaren 50. Bogota: From Colonial Hamlet to Cosmopolitan Metropolis Victoria Peralta 51. Convent in the Clouds: Quito as a Cultural Center Regina Harrison 52. La Paz-Chukiyawu Marka Elizabeth Monasterios XIX. V. Amazonia Introduction Nicomedes Suárez Araúz 53. Belém: Cultural Center Benedito Nunes 54. [Document: The View from Manaus] Milton Hatoum 55. Amazonian Cultural Centers of Bolivia Nicomedes Suárez Araúz VI. East and Central Brazil Introduction Angela Maria Dias 56. Recife as a Cultural Center César Leal 57. Bahia: Colonization and Cultures Eneida Leal Cunha, Jeferson Bacelar and Lizir Arcanjo Alves 58. Rio de Janeiro: Capital City Renato Cordeiro Gomes, Margarida de Souza Neves and Monica Pimenta Velloso 59. Sao Paulo: The Cultural Laboratory and Its Close Nicolau Sevcenko 60. Ouro Preto, Belo Horizonte, Brasília: The Utopia of Modernity Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury XX. VII. The Pampas, The Southern Borderlands XXI. Introduction Mário J. Valdés 61. Asunción as a Cultural Center Olga Araujo-Mendieta 62. Porto Alegre: Cultural Center of Southern Brazil Rita Terzinha Schmidt XXII. VIII. Rio de la Plata and Chile Introduction Richard Walter 63. Montevideo: From Frontier City to Mercosur Hugo Achugar 64. Buenos Aires: Cultural Center of River Plate Noemi Ulla 65. Santiago Marcella Orellana XXIII. IX. Latin American Culture in New York and Paris 66. New York City: Center and Transit Point for Hispanic Cultural Nomadism Dionisio Cañas 67. Paris and Latin Americans, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: From Cultural Metropolis to Cultural Museum? Denis Rolland LITERARY CULTURES OF LATIN AMERICA Edited by Mario J. Valdés and Djelal Kadir VOLUME THREE LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY CULTURE: SUBJECT TO HISTORY XXIV. Introduction XXV. Wander Melo Miranda PART ONE. FISSURED FOUNDATIONS: NOSTALGIA AND NEW BEGINNINGS XXVI. Introduction Doris Sommer and Maria Consuelo Cunha Campos I. Epic Voices: Encounters and Foundations 1. Epic Voices: Nonencounters and Foundation Myths José Antonio Mazzotti 2. Fragment and Totality: Narrating Colonial Encounters Guillermo Giucci and Marcelo Rocha Wanderley II. The Discourse of Melancholy: A Culture of Loss 3. Spectacular Cityscapes of Baroque Spanish America Stephanie Merrim 4. The Discourse of Melancholy in a Culture of Loss Maria Consuelo Cunha Campos III. Narratives of Legitimation: The Discourse of Hegemony and the Hermeneutics of Globalization 6. Narratives of Legitimation: The Invention of History-Monument and the National-State Beatriz González Stephan 7. Creating the National Imaginary Vera Follain de Figueiredo IV. Discourses of Modernity 8. National Installments: The Erotics of Modernity in Spanish America Doris Sommer 9. In the Public Eye: Naturalism and Brazilian Letters Victor Hugo Adler Pereira PART TWO. INTERNAL BORDERS: CULTURAL CONFLICTS AND STATE DISCOURSE Introduction Alberto Moreiras XXVII. I. Lettered Mediations 10. Documents of the First Encounter of Europeans with the New World: Lexicons, Missions, Voyages, and Resistances Ettore Finazzi-Agrò 11. Indigenous, Mestizo and Imperial Reason Marco Luis Dorfsman and Lori Hopkins 12. "A Very Subtle Idolatry": Estanislao de Vega Bazán's Authentic Testimony of Colonial Andean Religion Kenneth Mills 13. The Three Faces of the Baroque in Mexico and the Caribbean Iris Zavala 14. The Baroque and Transculturation Mabel Moraña 15. The Baroque Gaze Raúl Antelo 16. Francisco Xavier Clavijero and the Enlightenment in Mexico José Emilio Pacheco 17. New Thinking: From the Enlightenment to Independence Susana Rotker 18. Literary Criolism and Indigenism Horacio Legras XXVIII. II. Peoples, Communities, and Nation Building 19. Projects of Latin American Emancipation: The Caribbean, 1800-1850 Sibylle Fischer 20. Transculturation and the Discourse of Liberation Graciela Montaldo 21. Transculturation and Nationhood Idelber Avelar 22. The Brazilian Construction of Nationalism Adriana Romeiro XXIX. III. The Inversion of Social Darwinism 23. Negrismo: The American Real Elzbieta Sklodowska 24. The Literary Culture of the "New Order": Mexico 1867-1910 Leopoldo Zea 25. The Transcultural Mirror of Science: Race and Self-representation in Latin America Gabriela Nouzeilles 26. Literary Education and the Making of State Knowledge Juan Poblete 27. Mestizaje and the Inversion of Social Darwinisn in Spanish American Fiction Julie Taylor and George Yúdice XXX. IV. Modernization and the Formation of Cultural Identities 28. Mexico-U.S. Border Transculturation and State Discourse: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Marcus Embry 29. A Paradigm for Modernity: The Concept of Crisis in Modernismo Jorge Luis Camacho 30. Textual Transcultural Mediations and the Formation of Regional Identity Ileana Rodríguez 31. Anatomy of the Latin American "Boom" Novel Brett Levinson 32. The Modern Imaginary and Transculturation Eneida Maria de Souza PART THREE. LIMINALITY AND CENTRALITY OF LITERARY CULTURES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY I. Amerindian Literary Cultures Introduction Elizabeth Monasterios 33. Literatures of Mesoamerica Miguel León Portilla 34. The Nature of Indigenous Literatures in the Andes Denise Y. Arnold and Juan de Dios Yapita II. Latino Literary Cultures in the United States Introduction Juan Villegas 35. Reinventing America: The Chicano Literary Tradition María Herrera-Sobek 36. Chicano-Latino Theater Today Claudia Villegas-Silva 37. Puerto Rican Literature in the United States Carmen Dolores Hernández 38. Construction of New Cultural Identities: Puerto Rican Theater in New York Grace Dávila-López 39. Colonial Figures in Motion: Translocality, Tropicalism, and Translation in Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature in the United States Arnaldo Cruz Malavé 40. Cuban Theater in the United States José A. Escarpanter 41. Cuban American Prose: 1975-2000 María Cristina García PART FOUR. LITERARY CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Introduction Renato Cordeiro Gomes, Djelal Kadir, and Maríla Rothier Cardoso I. Historic Displacements 42. Historic Displacements in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literary Culture Renato Cordeiro Gomes, Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazolla, Ana Maria de Alencar, Antonio Arnoni Prado, Edson Rosa da Silva, Eneida Leal Cunha, Everardo Rocha, Joao Cezar de Castro Rocha, Marília Rothier Cardoso, and Nádia Battella Gotlib 43. Signs of Identity: Latin American Immigration and Exile Clara F. Lida and Francisco Zapata 44. Exile in the Spanish American Diaspora in the Twentieth Century Ivan Almeida and Cristina Parodi 45. Political Exclusion / Literary Inclusion: Argentine and Uruguayan Writers Saul Sosnowski 46. Writers under (and after) the Chilean Military Dictatorship Javier Campos II. Modernity, Modernisms, and Their Avatars 47. Notions of Modernity Javier Lasarte 48. Aesthetics of Rupture Eneida Maria de Souza 49. The Postmodern in Brazilian Literary Theory and Criticism Italo Moriconi III. Ideologies and Imaginaries 50. Literature and Revolution in Latin America Hermann Herlinghaus 51. Imagining Narrative Territories Lucille Kerr 52. Utopic Theories in Brazil Vera Follain de Figueiredo 53. Conservatism and Modernization in Brazil Victor Hugo Adler Pereira 54. Post-Utopian Imaginaries Flavio Carneiro IV. By Way of Coda: In Anticipation 55. Scenes of the Twenty-first Century: The Routes of the New Julio Ortega
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