Rethinking Literary History -- Comparatively
DETAILED OUTLINE - VOL. I

OXFORD COMPARATIVE HISTORY of LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY CULTURES
EDITORS: MARIO J. VALDÉS and DJELAL KADIR
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

INTRODUCTION:
Luisa Campuzano

1. Parameters of Literary Culture

Coordinators:
Beatriz Garza-Cuarón, Luis Millones, Hervé Théry, Mario J. Valdés

  • Introduction:
    Mario J. Valdés
  1. Geographic Factors and the Formation of Cultural Terrain for Literary Production
    Cartography by Violette Brustlein-Waniez
    1. Hervé Théry. "The Formation of a Cultural Territory"
    2. Alain Jean Musset. "From the New Spain of Cortés to the Mexican, Central American and Caribbean Mosaic"
    3. Jean-Paul Deler. "The Andean Countries"
    4. Hervé Théry. "Brazil: A Continent, An Archipelago"
    5. Sébastian Velut. "The Southern Cone"
    6. Emmanuel Lèzy. "The Amazon: The Forgotten Heart"

  2. Demographics and the Formation of Cultural Centers
    1. Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz. "Demography, Language and Cultural Centers"

  3. Linguistic Diversity of Latin American Literary Cultures
    1. Beatriz Garza-Cuarón. "Linguistic Diversity in Mexico"
    2. Juan González Hernández. [Document: Tzotzil Text]
    3. Stephen A. Marlett. "Linguistic Diversity in Central and Northern South America"
    4. Santiago Fabian L. [Document: Zapotec Text]
    5. Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller. "Linguistic Diversity in Venezuela"
    6. Jon Landaburu. "Linguistic Diversity in Colombia"
    7. Willem F. H. Adelaar. "Linguistic Diversity in the Andean Countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru) and Paraguay"
    8. Beatriz Garza-Cuarón. "Spanish as a Dominant Language after the Conquest"
    9. José Moreno de Alba. "The Unity of the Spanish Language"
    10. Marianne Akerberg. "The Portuguese Language in Brazil"

  4. History of the Production of Literary Cultures in Colonial Latin America
    1. José Joaquín Blanco. "The Production of a Literary Culture in New Spain"
    2. Jorge Luis Camacho. "The Context of Literary Culture in the Caribbean"
    3. Tania Franco Carvalhal. "The Foundations of Brazilian Literary Culture"
    4. Luis Millones. "Literary Culture During the Peruvian Viceroyalty"

  5. Access and Participation in the Literary Cultures of Latin America
    1. Mario J. Valdés. "Social History of the Latin American Writer"
    2. Juan Poblete. "Reading as a Historical Practice in Latin America: The First Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century"
    3. Leyla Perrone-Moisés. "Literary Nationalism in Latin America"
    4. Mario J. Valdés. "The Making of a Latin American Literary Canon"

2. From the Margins of Literary History

Coordinators:
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Marlyse Meyer, Beatriz Resende, Cynthia Steele


  1. Configurations of Socioeconomic, Racial and Ethnic Alterity in Literary History
    1. Kathleen Newman. "Poverty in the History of Literary Cultures"
    2. Beatriz Resende. "The Multiple Exclusions of Lima Barreto"
    3. Cynthia Steele. "First Nations, First Writers: Indigenous Mexican Literary History"
    4. Gail Ament. "Recent Mayan Incursions into Guatemalan Literary Historiography"
    5. Regina Harrison. "Andean Indigenous Expression: Resisting Marginality"
    6. Claudia Neiva de Matos. "Brazil's Indigenous Textualities"
    7. Rosemary G. Feal. "Afro-Hispanic Writers in Latin American Literary History"
    8. Heloisa Toller Gomes, Gizelda Melo do Nascimento and Leda Maria Martins. "Black Presence in Brazilian Literature: From the Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century"
    9. Saul Sosnowski. "Jewish Literary Culture in Spanish America"
    10. Nelson H. Vieira. "Displacement and Disregard: Brazilian-Jewish Writing and the Search for Narrative Identity"
    11. Susane Worcman. "Yiddish Theater in Brazil"

  2. Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Historical Formation of the Cultural Imaginary
    1. Josefina Muriel. "Women Writers During the Viceroyalty"
    2. Kathleen A. Myers. "Saints or Sinners?: Life Writings and Colonial Latin American Women"
    3. Leila Mezan Algranti. "Mystics and Visionaries: Women's Writing in Eighteenth-Century Portuguese America"
    4. Debra Castillo. "Exclusions in Latin American Literary History"
    5. María Elena de Valdés. "Women Writing in Non-Traditional Genres"
    6. Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda. "Where's the Canon? The Challenge of Feminist Literary Historiography in Brazil"
    7. Leslie H. Damasceno, Ana Maria de Bulhões-Carvalho, Marina Pianca. "Women in Brazilian Theater"
    8. Lucia Helena, Silvia Oroz, Sylvia Paixão. "Brazilian Women: Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries"
    9. Luzila Gonçalves Ferreira. "Constructing the Place of Woman in Brazil's Northeastern Region"
    10. Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda. "Rachel de Queróz and the Northeastern Ethos"
    11. Elena Martínez. "Writing Against the Grain: An Overview of Twentieth-Century Lesbian Literature in Latin America"
    12. Daniel Balderston. "Secrets and Truths"
    13. Denilson Lopes. "Notes Toward a History of Homosexuality in Brazilian Literature"

3. Plurality of Discourse in Latin American Culture

Coordinators:
Raúl Antelo, Eugenia Meyer, Carlos Monsiváis, Zuzana M. Pick, Eneida Maria de Souza, Juan Villegas

  1. Religious, Scientific, and Political Discourses
    • Introduction: Eneida Maria de Souza and Raul Antelo

    1. Silvia Delfino. "The Rhetoric of Latin American Nationalism from the Colonial Period to Independence"
    2. Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico. "The Rhetoric of Citizenship in Modernity"
    3. Aparecida Paiva. "The Struggle Over the Printed Word: The Catholic Church in Brazil and Social Discourse"
    4. Rachel Esteves Lima. "Scientific Discourse in Brazil and Intellectual Exchange"
    5. Claudia Gilman. "Bio-Policies Undergoing Transformation: Bodies and Ideas of American Identity"
    6. Heloísa Maria Murgel Starling. "Fiction and Allegory: Politics and Postmodernity"

  2. Orality and Literature
    • Introduction: Eugenia Meyer

    1. Leonardo Manrique Castañeda. "The History of Oral Literature in Mexico"
    2. Luz María Martínez Montiel. "African Orality in the Literary Culture of the Caribbean"
    3. José Antonio Giménez Micó. "Orality and Literature in the Peruvian Andean Zone"
    4. Eva Grosser Lerner and Eduardo Lucio Molina y Vedia. "Argentina, Chile, Uruguay: A History of Literary Orality"
    5. Jerusa Pires Ferreira. "Oral Literature in Brazil"
    6. Ivete Lara Walty. "Textuality and Territoriality in Brazilian Oral Discourse"

  3. The Multiplicity and Diversity of Discourses and Theatricalities
    • Introduction: Juan Villegas

    1. Juan Villegas. "The Theater in Prehispanic America"
    2. Tamara Underiner. "Contemporary Mayan Theater"
    3. Juan Villegas. "Plurality and Diversity of Theater Discourse"
    4. Juan Villegas. "Afro-Latin American Theater"
    5. João Roberto Faria. "Theatrical Forms and Their Social Dimensions in Nineteenth-Century Brazil"
    6. Maria Helena Werneck and Victor Hugo Adler Pereira. "Dramaturgies and Theatricalities: Aspects of the Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literary Scene"

  4. Trasformations in Popular Culture
    • Introduction: Mario J. Valdés

    1. Carlos Monsiváis. "Laughing Through One's Tears: Popular Culture in Mexico"
    2. Ana María Amar Sánchez. "Mass Culture and Literature in Latin America"
    3. Daniel Chamberlain. "Central Frontiers: A Common Place for the "corrido" in a History of Latin American Cultural Formations"
    4. Idelette Muzart Fonseca dos Santos. "Literatura de cordel: Literature for Market and Voice"
    5. Marlyse Meyer. "Religious Celebrations in Brazilian Cultural History"
    6. Félix Coluccio and Marta Isabel Coluccio. "Carnival"
    7. Jesús Martín-Barbero. "Popular Memory and the Collective Imagination in Latin American Soap Operas"
    8. Carlos Monsiváis. "The Popular in the Confused Republics?"

  5. Cinema: Cultural Dialogues and the Process of Modernity
    1. Julianne Burton-Carvajal and Zuzana M. Pick. "Cultural Dialogues and the Process of Modernity"

Working plan
revised August 10, 2001


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