Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism

Gustavo Verdesio

On the Issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America today

Alvaro Felix Bolanos

Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History

Jose Rabasa

Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza

Cora Lagos

Narrating Colonial Interventions: Don Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada

Luis Fernando Restrepo

(Post-)Colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics

Antony Higgins

Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas

Stacey Schlau

Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-Century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano

Mariselle Melendez

The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru

Jose Antonio Mazzotti

History and Plunder in El carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America

Alvaro Felix Bolanos

The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan Jose Saer and Their Critics

Gustavo Verdesio

Afterword: ``Writing with his thumb in the air'': Coloniality, Past and Present

Sara Castro-Klaren

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