Table of Contents:
  • 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 with reading and writing about colonial Latin America today / Alvaro Félix Bolaños
  • Pre-Columbian pasts and Indian presents in Mexican history / José Rabasa
  • Confronting imaginations: towards an alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza / Cora Lagos
  • Narrating colonial interventions: Don Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmequé 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 Meléndez
  • The dragon and the seashell: British corsairs, epic poetry and Creole nation in viceregal Peru / José Antonio Mazzotti
  • History and plunder in El carnero: writing, among Indians, a history of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in colonial Spanish America / Alvaro Félix Bolaños
  • The literary appropriation of the American landscape: the historical novels of Abel Posse and Juan José Saer and their critics / Gustavo Verdesio
  • Afterword: "Writing with his thumb in the air": coloniality, past and present / Sara Castro-Klarén.