GENERAL EDITORS' INTRODUCTION:
RETHINKING LITERARY HISTORY COMPARATIVELY
Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdés
INTRODUCTION FROM THE EDITORS
Mario J. Valdés
VOLUME ONE (600 pp)
Configurations of Literary Culture
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INTRODUCTION:
Luisa Campuzano
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1. Parameters of Literary Culture
Coordinators:
Beatriz Garza-Cuarón, Luis Millones, Hervé Théry, Mario J. Valdés
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- Introduction:
Mario J. Valdés
- Geographic Factors and the Formation of Cultural Terrain for Literary Production
Cartography by Violette Brustlein-Waniez
- Hervé Théry. "The Formation of a Cultural Territory"
- Alain Jean Musset. "From the New Spain of Cortés to the Mexican, Central American and Caribbean Mosaic"
- Jean-Paul Deler. "The Andean Countries"
- Hervé Théry. "Brazil: A Continent, An Archipelago"
- Sébastian Velut. "The Southern Cone"
- Emmanuel Lèzy. "The Amazon: The Forgotten Heart"
- Demographics and the Formation of Cultural Centers
- Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz. "Demography, Language and Cultural Centers"
- Linguistic Diversity of Latin American Literary Cultures
- Beatriz Garza-Cuarón. "Linguistic Diversity in Mexico"
- Juan González Hernández. [Document: Tzotzil Text]
- Stephen A. Marlett. "Linguistic Diversity in Central and Northern South America"
- Santiago Fabian L. [Document: Zapotec Text]
- Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller. "Linguistic Diversity in Venezuela"
- Jon Landaburu. "Linguistic Diversity in Colombia"
- Willem F. H. Adelaar. "Linguistic Diversity in the Andean Countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru) and Paraguay"
- Beatriz Garza-Cuarón. "Spanish as a Dominant Language after the Conquest"
- José Moreno de Alba. "The Unity of the Spanish Language"
- Marianne Akerberg. "The Portuguese Language in Brazil"
- History of the Production of Literary Cultures in Colonial Latin America
- José Joaquín Blanco. "The Production of a Literary Culture in New Spain"
- Jorge Luis Camacho. "The Context of Literary Culture in the Caribbean"
- Tania Franco Carvalhal. "The Foundations of Brazilian Literary Culture"
- Luis Millones. "Literary Culture During the Peruvian Viceroyalty"
- Access and Participation in the Literary Cultures of Latin America
- Mario J. Valdés. "Social History of the Latin American Writer"
- Juan Poblete. "Reading as a Historical Practice in Latin America: The First Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century"
- Leyla Perrone-Moisés. "Literary Nationalism in Latin America"
- Mario J. Valdés. "The Making of a Latin American Literary Canon"
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2. From the Margins of Literary History
Coordinators:
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Marlyse Meyer, Beatriz Resende, Cynthia Steele
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- Introduction:
Cynthia Steele, Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Marlyse Meyer, Beatriz Vieira de Resende
- Configurations of Socioeconomic, Racial and Ethnic Alterity in Literary History
- Kathleen Newman. "Poverty in the History of Literary Cultures"
- Beatriz Resende. "The Multiple Exclusions of Lima Barreto"
- Cynthia Steele. "First Nations, First Writers: Indigenous Mexican Literary History"
- Gail Ament. "Recent Mayan Incursions into Guatemalan Literary Historiography"
- Regina Harrison. "Andean Indigenous Expression: Resisting Marginality"
- Claudia Neiva de Matos. "Brazil's Indigenous Textualities"
- Rosemary G. Feal. "Afro-Hispanic Writers in Latin American Literary History"
- Heloisa Toller Gomes, Gizelda Melo do Nascimento and Leda Maria Martins.
"Black Presence in Brazilian Literature: From the Colonial Period to the
Twentieth Century"
- Saul Sosnowski. "Jewish Literary Culture in Spanish America"
- Nelson H. Vieira. "Displacement and Disregard: Brazilian-Jewish Writing and
the Search for Narrative Identity"
- Susane Worcman. "Yiddish Theater in Brazil"
- Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Historical Formation of the Cultural Imaginary
- Josefina Muriel. "Women Writers During the Viceroyalty"
- Kathleen A. Myers. "Saints or Sinners?: Life Writings and Colonial Latin
American Women"
- Leila Mezan Algranti. "Mystics and Visionaries: Women's Writing in
Eighteenth-Century Portuguese America"
- Debra Castillo. "Exclusions in Latin American Literary History"
- María Elena de Valdés. "Women Writing in Non-Traditional Genres"
- Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda. "Where's the Canon? The Challenge of Feminist
Literary Historiography in Brazil"
- Leslie H. Damasceno, Ana Maria de Bulhões-Carvalho, Marina Pianca.
"Women in Brazilian Theater"
- Lucia Helena, Silvia Oroz, Sylvia Paixão. "Brazilian Women:
Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries"
- Luzila Gonçalves Ferreira. "Constructing the Place of Woman in Brazil's
Northeastern Region"
- Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda. "Rachel de Queróz and the Northeastern Ethos"
- Elena Martínez. "Writing Against the Grain: An Overview of Twentieth-Century Lesbian Literature in Latin America"
- Daniel Balderston. "Secrets and Truths"
- Denilson Lopes. "Notes Toward a History of Homosexuality in Brazilian Literature"
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3. Plurality of Discourse in Latin American Culture
Coordinators:
Raúl Antelo, Eugenia Meyer, Carlos Monsiváis, Zuzana M. Pick, Eneida Maria de Souza, Juan Villegas
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- Religious, Scientific, and Political Discourses
- Introduction:
Eneida Maria de Souza and Raul Antelo
- Silvia Delfino. "The Rhetoric of Latin American Nationalism from the Colonial Period to Independence"
- Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico. "The Rhetoric of Citizenship in Modernity"
- Aparecida Paiva. "The Struggle Over the Printed Word: The Catholic Church in Brazil and Social Discourse"
- Rachel Esteves Lima. "Scientific Discourse in Brazil and Intellectual Exchange"
- Claudia Gilman. "Bio-Policies Undergoing Transformation: Bodies and Ideas of
American Identity"
- Heloísa Maria Murgel Starling. "Fiction and Allegory: Politics and Postmodernity"
Orality and Literature
- Introduction:
Eugenia Meyer
- Leonardo Manrique Castañeda. "The History of Oral Literature in Mexico"
- Luz María Martínez Montiel. "African Orality in the Literary Culture
of the Caribbean"
- José Antonio Giménez Micó. "Orality and Literature in the
Peruvian Andean Zone"
- Eva Grosser Lerner and Eduardo Lucio Molina y Vedia. "Argentina, Chile, Uruguay:
A History of Literary Orality"
- Jerusa Pires Ferreira. "Oral Literature in Brazil"
- Ivete Lara Walty. "Textuality and Territoriality in Brazilian Oral Discourse"
The Multiplicity and Diversity of Discourses and Theatricalities
- Introduction:
Juan Villegas
- Juan Villegas. "The Theater in Prehispanic America"
- Tamara Underiner. "Contemporary Mayan Theater"
- Juan Villegas. "Plurality and Diversity of Theater Discourse"
- Juan Villegas. "Afro-Latin American Theater"
- João Roberto Faria. "Theatrical Forms and Their Social Dimensions in
Nineteenth-Century Brazil"
- Maria Helena Werneck and Victor Hugo Adler Pereira. "Dramaturgies and
Theatricalities: Aspects of the Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literary Scene"
Trasformations in Popular Culture
- Introduction:
Mario J. Valdés
- Carlos Monsiváis. "Laughing Through One's Tears: Popular Culture in Mexico"
- Ana María Amar Sánchez. "Mass Culture and Literature in Latin America"
- Daniel Chamberlain. "Central Frontiers: A Common Place for the "corrido" in a
History of Latin American Cultural Formations"
- Idelette Muzart Fonseca dos Santos. "Literatura de cordel: Literature for Market and Voice"
- Marlyse Meyer. "Religious Celebrations in Brazilian Cultural History"
- Félix Coluccio and Marta Isabel Coluccio. "Carnival"
- Jesús Martín-Barbero. "Popular Memory and the Collective Imagination in Latin
American Soap Operas"
- Carlos Monsiváis. "The Popular in the Confused Republics?"
Cinema: Cultural Dialogues and the Process of Modernity
- Julianne Burton-Carvajal and Zuzana M. Pick. "Cultural Dialogues and the
Process of Modernity"
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