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

OXFORD COMPARATIVE HISTORY of LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY CULTURES
EDITORS: MARIO J. VALDÉS and DJELAL KADIR
VOLUME TWO (600 pp)
Institutional Modes and Cultural Modalities

INTRODUCTION:
Walter D. Mignolo

1. Cultural Institutions

Coordinators:
Lisa Block de Behar, Tania Franco Carvalhal

  • Introduction:
    Lisa Block de Behar and Tania Franco Carvalhal
  1. Books and Readers in Latin America
    1. Luigi Avonto. "Books, Myths and the Reading Public in Spanish America during the Sixteenth Century"
    2. José Mindlin. "The Book in Brazil: Libraries and Presses"
    3. Tânia Dias. "The Introduction of Print into Brazil 1808-1831"
    4. Yone Soares de Lima. "The Publishing Movement in São Paulo"
    5. Gilberto Pinheiro Passos. "Books and the Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Intellectual: The Case of Machado de Assis"
    6. Fernando Ainsa. "Books and Politics in Latin America"
    7. Augusto de Campos. [Document: Oswald: Free Book]

  2. Cultural Institutions
    1. K. Alfons Knauth. "Cultural Institutions in Spanish America"
    2. Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo. "Cultural Institutions and Intellectual Life in Brazil"
    3. Yêdda Dias Lima. "The Academic Movement in Brazil"
    4. João Adolfo Hansen. "Cultural Models of Seventeenth-Century Luso-Brazilian Practices of Representation"
    5. Maria de Lourdes Parreiras-Horta. "Latin American Museums: Text, Discourse, and Meaning"
    6. Célio da Cunha. "Education in Brazil: Omissions, Advances, and Future Perspectives"
    7. Rildo Cosson and Cíntia Schwantes. "Brazilian Literature in the Nineteen Seventies: Censorship and Cultural Industry"
    8. Fabio Lucas. "State Sponsorship and Control of Publishing in Brazil"

  3. Cultural Journalism
    1. Aníbal González-Pérez. "Cultural Journalism in Spanish America: An Overview"
    2. Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo. "Criticism and Literature in Brazilian Periodicals of the Romantic Period"
    3. Jorge Coli. "From Journalism to Foundational Text: Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands)"
    4. Eduardo Romano. "Illustrated Weeklies and Literary Organization in the River Plate Region circa 1900"
    5. Ivia Alves. "Literary Journalism in Brazil during the First Half of the Twentieth Century"
    6. Luz Rodríguez-Carranza. "Literary Periodicals of the Sixties: Proposals for Reading"
    7. Wendy van Es. "Selected List of Spanish American Literary Periodicals of the 1960s"
    8. Maria Lucia de Barros Camargo. "Criticism and Cultural Journalism in Contemporary Brazil"

  4. Translation as a Cultural Institution
    1. Laszlo Scholz. "Translation as a Literary Institution"
    2. Else Ribeiro Pires Vieira. "The Development of a Translation Paideuma and Poetics in Brazil: The Campos Brothers"

  5. Criticism as Cultural Institution
    1. Daniel Link, Claudia Gilman, and Raul Antelo. "Criticism as a Latin American Cultural Institution"
    2. Roberto Ventura. "Controversy Becomes History: The Concept of Brazilian Literature"

2. Textual Models and Their Transformations

Coordinators:
Randolph Pope, Flora Sussekind


  1. Form and Figuration
    1. Jussara Menezes Quadros. "The Book and the Format of the Novel"
    2. Luz Aurora Pimentel. "The Representation of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Narrative and Iconography"

  2. Poetic Models and the Cultural Imaginary
    1. Gwen Kirkpatrick. "Poetic Exchange and Epic Landscapes"
    2. Noé Jitrik. "An Emerging Poetry"

  3. Forms of Discourse in Testimonio, Autobiography, and Letter Writing
    1. Elzbieta Sklodowska. "In the Web of Reality: Latin American Testimonio"
    2. Elena Poniatowska. [Document: From the Spoken to the Written Word]
    3. Júlio Castañon Guimarães. "The Epistolary Genre and Brazilian Modernism"
    4. Marta Peixoto. "Disruptive Autobiographies in Clarice Lispector and Ana Cristina Cesar"

  4. The Essay and its Corollaries
    1. Randolph Pope. "The Comparative Drive in the Latin American Essay"
    2. Maria Helena Rouanet. "Polemic Genres: The Dynamics of Contestation in Latin American Culture"
    3. Flora Sussekind. "Satire and Temporal Heterogeneity"
    4. Alcir Pécora. "the Sermon in the Seventeenth Century"

  5. The Novel
    1. Marlyse Meyer. "The Feuilleton and European Models in the Making of the Brazilian Novel"
    2. Aníbal González-Pérez. "Novel and Journalism: Strategic Interchanges"
    3. Roberto González Echevarría. "The Making of the Latin American Novel"

3. The Cultural Centres of Latin America

Coordinators:
Eduardo de Faria Coutinho, Victoria Peralta


  1. Northern México and the Border
    1. José Manuel Valenzuela. "Threshold Without Frontier: Cultural Limits and Cultural Intervals on the Mexico-U.S. Border"

  2. Mesoamerica
    1. Carlos Monsiváis. "Enlightened Neighborhood: Mexico City as a Cultural Center"
    2. Nicasio Urbina and Laura Barbas Rhoden. "The Cultural Centers of Central America"

  3. The Caribbean
    • Introduction: Marcelino Canino Salgado
    1. Luisa Campuzano. "Havana"
    2. William Luis. "Santo Domingo: Center of Innovation, Transition, and Change"
    3. Marcelino Canino Salgado. "Puerto Rico: Caribbean Cultural Center"
    4. Alexis Márquez Rodríguez. "The City of Caracas"

  4. Andean Region
    • Introduction: Consuelo Triviño Anzola
    1. Sara Castro-Klarén. "Lima: A Blurred Centrality"
    2. Victoria Peralta. "Bogotá: From Colonial Hamlet to Cosmopolitan Metropolis"
    3. Regina Harrison. "Convent in the Clouds: Quito as a Cultural Centre"
    4. Elizabeth Monasterios. "La Paz-Chukiyawu Marka"

  5. Amazonia
    • Introduction: Nicomedes Suárez Araúz
    1. Benedito Nunes. "Belém: Cultural Center"
    2. Milton Hatoum. [Document: The View from Manaus]
    3. Nicomedes Suárez Araúz. "Amazonian Cultural Centers of Bolivia"

  6. East and Central Brazil
    • Introduction: Angela Maria Dias
    1. César Leal. "Recife as a Cultural Center"
    2. Eneida Leal Cunha, Jeferson Bacelar, and Lizir Arcanjo Alves. "Bahia: Colonization and Cultures"
    3. Renato Cordeiro Gomes, Margarida de Souza Neves, and Monica Pimenta Velloso. "Rio de Janeiro - Capital City"
    4. Nicolau Sevcenko. "São Paolo: The Cultural Laboratory and its Close"
    5. Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury. "Ouro Preto, Belo Horizonte, Brasília: The Utopia of Modernity"

  7. The Pampas, The Southern Boderlands
    • Introduction: Mario J. Valdés
    1. Olga Araujo-Mendieta. "Asunción as Cultural Center"
    2. Rita Terzinha Schmidt. "Porto Alegre: Cultural Center of Southern Brazil"

  8. Rio de la Plata and Chile
    • Introduction: Richard Walter
    1. Hugo Achugar. "Montevideo: From Frontier City to Mercosur"
    2. Noemí Ulla. "Buenos Aires, Cultural Center of River Plate"
    3. Marcela Orellana. "Santiago"

  9. Latin American Culture in New York and Paris
    1. Dionisio Cañas. "New York City: Center and Transit Point for Hispanic Cultural Nomadism"
    2. Denis Rolland. "Paris and Latin Americans, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: from Cultural Metropolis to Cultural Museum?"

Working plan
revised August 10, 2001


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