Table of Contents:
  • Space and the rhetorics of power in colonial Spanish America: an introduction / Santa Arias, Mariselle Meléndez
  • "Llevando el norte sobre el ojo isquierdo": mapping, measuring, and naming in Castan̄eda's Relación de la jornada de Cíbola (1563) / Maureen Ahern
  • African reinscription of body and space in New Granada / Margaret M. Olsen
  • (De)mystifying sacred geographical spaces in Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc's Crónica mexicana / Rocío Cortés
  • Sacred and imperial topographies in Juan de Castellanos's Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias / Luis Fernando Restrepo
  • Enunciating space, locating identity: Garcilaso de la Vega's Comentarios reales de los Incas / Erik Camayd-Freixas
  • Bartolomé de las Casas's sacred place of history / Santa Arias
  • Original sin behind the creation of a new Europe: economic and ecological imperialism in the River Plate / Gustavo Verdesio
  • "Enlightened" reconfigurations of colonial space in the Rusticatio Mexicana / Antony Higgins
  • Writing of the frontier: blurring gender and genre in the Monja Alférez's account / Kathleen Ann Myers
  • Body as a conventual space of resistance / Jennifer L. Eich
  • Public spectacle and the fragmentation of the female body in eighteenth century Peru: the case of Micaela Bastidas / Mariselle Meléndez
  • Ercilla's construction and destruction of the city of concepcion: a crossroads of imperialist ideology and the poetic imagination / Julie Greer Johnson
  • Riding high, the horseman's view: urban space and body in México en 1554 / Sergio Rivera-Ayala
  • Place to live, a place to think, and a place to die: sixteenth century frontier cities, plazas, and "relaciones" in Spanish America / Alvaro Félix Bolaños