Preface | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Representing the New World | |
The Movable Center: Geographical Discourses and Territoriality During the Expansion of the Spanish Empire | p. 15 |
The Articulation of Alterity on the Northern Frontier: The Relatione della navigatione and scoperta by Fernando de Alarcon, 1540 | p. 46 |
Of Peanuts and Bread: Images of the Raw and the Refined in the Sixteenth-Century Conquest of New Spain | p. 62 |
The Institutionalization of the Colony | |
Peaceful Conquest and Law in the Relacion (Account) of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | p. 75 |
Colonial Literature and Social Reality in Brazil and the Viceroyalty of Peru: The Satirical Poetry of Gregorio de Matos and Juan del Valle y Caviedes | p. 87 |
Mateo Rosas de Oquendo's Satira: Carnival, Necromancy and Political Subversion | p. 101 |
Amerindian and Proamerindian Texts | |
Cultural Resistance in the Andes and Its Depiction in Atau Wallpaj P'uchukakuyninpa Wankan or Tragedy of Atahualpa's Death | p. 115 |
The Theology of Concupiscence: Spanish-Quechua Confessional Manuals in the Andes | p. 135 |
Women in Colonial Latin America | |
Lo femenino: Women in Colonial Historical Sources | p. 153 |
Catalina de Erauso: From Anomaly to Icon | p. 177 |
"La gran turba de las que merecieron nombres": Sor Juana's Foremothers in "La Respuesta a Sor Filotea" | p. 206 |
Of "Orders" and "Disorders": Analogy in the Baroque Lyric (from Gongora to Sor Juana) | p. 224 |
Late Colonial Times | |
Satire and Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish-American Society | p. 239 |
Concolorcorvo: Guide for Travelers in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America | p. 247 |
Cirilo Villaverde, the Seeker of Origins | p. 255 |
Bibliography | p. 263 |
Contributors | p. 287 |
Name Index | p. 291 |
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