Rethinking Literary History -- Comparatively
DETAILED OUTLINE - VOL. III
OXFORD COMPARATIVE HISTORY of LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY CULTURES
EDITORS: MARIO J. VALDÉS and DJELAL KADIR
VOLUME THREE (600 pp)
Latin American Literary Culture: Subject to History

INTRODUCTION:
Wander Melo Miranda

1. Fissured Foundations: Nostalgia and New Beginnings

Coordinators:
Doris Sommer, Maria Consuelo Cunha Campos

  • Introduction:
    Doris Sommer and Maria Consuelo Cunha Campos
  1. Epic Voices: Encounters and Foundations
    1. José Antonio Mazzotti. "Epic Voices: Non-encounters and Foundation Myths"
    2. Guilhermo Giucci and Marcelo Rocha Wanderley. "Fragment and Totality: Narrating Colonial Encounters"

  2. The Discourse of Melancholy: A Culture of Loss
    1. Stephanie Merrim. "Spectacular Cityscapes of Baroque Spanish America"
    2. Maria Consuelo Cunha Campos. "The Discourse of Melancholy in a Culture of Loss"
    3. Magdalena Chocano Mena. "Heritage of Folds: The Nineteenth Century in the Andean Region"

  3. Narratives of Legitimation, the Discourse of Hegemony and the Hermeneutics of Globalization
    1. Beatriz González Stephan. "Narratives of Legitimation: The Invention of History - Monument and the National-State"
    2. Vera Follain de Figeiredo. "Creating the National Imaginary"

  4. Discourses of Modernity
    1. Doris Sommer. "National Installments: The Erotics of Modernity in Spanish America"
    2. Victor Hugo Adler Pereira. "In the Public Eye: Naturalism and Brazilian Letters"

2. Internal Boders: Cultural Conflicts and State Discourse

Coordinators:
Wander Melo Miranda, Alberto Moreiras, Iris Zavala


  1. Lettered Mediations
    1. Ettore Finazzi-Agrò. "Documents of the First Encounters of Europeans with the New World: Lexicons, Missions, Voyages, and Resistances"
    2. Marco Dorfsman and Lori Hopkins. "Indigenous, Mestizo and Imperial Reason"
    3. Kenneth R. Mills. "'A Very Subtle Idolatry': Estanislao de Vega Bazán's Authentic Testimony of Colonial Andean Religion"
    4. Iris Zavala. "The Three Faces of the Baroque in Mexico and the Caribbean"
    5. Mabel Moraña. "The Baroque and Transculturation"
    6. Raúl Antelo. "The Baroque Gaze"
    7. José Emilio Pacheco. "Francisco Xavier Clavijero and the Enlightenment in Mexico"
    8. Susana Rotker. "New Thinking: From the Enlightenment to Independence"
    9. Horacio Legrás. "Literary Criolism and Indigenism"

  2. Peoples, Communities and Nation Building
    1. Sibylle Fischer. "Projects of Latin American Emancipation: The Caribbean, 1800-1850"
    2. Pablo González Casanova. "Modernity in Mexican Cultural History: From the Enlightenment to the Mexican Revolution"
    3. Graciela Montaldo. "Transculturation and the Discourse of Liberation"
    4. Idelber Avelar. "Transculturation and Nationhood"
    5. Reinaldo Marques. "Arcadias, Utopias, Secularization and Dissidence in Brazil"
    6. Adriana Romeiro. "The Brazilian Construction of Nationalism"

  3. The Inversion of Social Darwinism
    1. Elzbieta Sklodowska. "Negrismo: The American Real"
    2. Rita De Grandis. "Rethinking Mexican Literary Indigenismo"
    3. Leopoldo Zea. "The Literary Culture of the 'New Order': Mexico 1867-1910"
    4. Gabriela Nouzeilles. "The Transcultural Mirror of Science: Race and Self-representation in Latin America"
    5. Juan Poblete. "Literary Education and the Making of State Knowledge"
    6. Julie Taylor and George Yúdice. "Mestizaje and the Inversion of Social Darwinism in Spanish American Fiction"
    7. Ilka Boaventura Leite. "Theories of Mestizaje in Latin America"

  4. Modernization and the Formation of Cultural Identities
    1. Marcus Embry. "Mexico-U.S. Border Transculturation and State Discourse: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"
    2. Jorge Luis Camacho. "A Paradigm for Modernity: The Concept of Crisis in Modernismo"
    3. Ileana Rodríguez. "Textual Transcultural Mediations and the Formation of Regional Identity"
    4. Brett Levinson. "Anatomy of the Latin American 'Boom' Novel"
    5. Jon Beasley-Murray. "The Intellectual and the State"
    6. Gareth Williams. "Transculturation as a Fictive Ethnicity: Populism and State Discourse in Latin America"
    7. Leticia Malard. "The Regionalism of the Thirties and the Repression of the Seventies in Brazil"
    8. Eneida Maria de Souza. "The Modern Imaginary and Transculturation"
    9. Wander Melo Miranda. "The Crisis of Transculturation: Appropriations and Dislocations"

3. Liminality and Centrality of Literary Cultures in the Twentieth Century

Coordinators:
Elizabeth Monasterios, Juan Villegas

  1. Amerindian Literary Cultures
    • Introduction: Elizabeth Monasterios

    1. Miguel León-Portilla. "Literatures of Mesoamerica"
    2. Denise Y. Arnold and Juan de Dios Yapita. "The Nature of Indigenous Literatures in the Andes"
    3. Eduardo Rosenzvaig. "Toba Literature from Argentina's Chaco"
    4. Mario Blaser and Keiwe (Sixto Bernal). "Chamacoco Literature from Paraguay's Chaco"
    5. Olga Araujo-Mendieta. "Guarani Literature from Paraguay"

  2. Latino Literary Cultures in the United States
    • Introduction: Juan Villegas

    1. María Herrera-Sobek. "Reinventing America: the Chicano Literary Tradition"
    2. Claudia Villegas-Silva. "Chicano-Latino Theater Today"
    3. Carmen Dolores Hernández. "Puerto Rican Literature in the United States"
    4. Grace Yvette Dávila-López. "Construction of New Cultural Identities: Puerto Rican Theater in New York"
    5. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. "Colonial Figures in Motion: Translocality, Tropicalism, and Translation in Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature in the United States"
    6. José A. Escarpanter. "Cuban Theater in the United States"
    7. María Cristina García. "Cuban American Prose: 1975-2000"
    8. Doris Sommer. [Document: Latinos in the U.S.A. and the Debate on Transculturation: Success in Failure]

4. Literary Culture in the Twentieth Century

Coordinators:
Renato Cordeiro Gomes, Djelal Kadir, Marília Rothier Cardoso


  1. Historic Displacements
    1. Renato Cordeiro Gomes, Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazolla, Ana Maria de Alencar, Antônio Arnoni Prado, Edson Rosa da Silva, Eneida Leal Cunha, Everardo Pereira Guimarães Rocha, João Cezar de Castro Rocha, Marília Rothier Cardoso, Nádia Batella Gotlib. "Historic Displacements in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literary Culture"
    2. Clara Lida and Francisco Zapata. "Signs of Identity: Latin American Immigration and Exile"
    3. Ivan Almeida and Cristina Parodi. "Exile in the Spanish American Diaspora in the Twentieth Century"
    4. Saul Sosnowski. "Political Exclusion / Literary Inclusion: Argentine and Uruguayan Writers"
    5. Javier Campos. "Writers Under (and After) the Chilean Military Dictatorship"

  2. Modernity, Modernisms and their Avatars
    1. Javier Lasarte. "Notions of Modernity"
    2. Eneida Maria de Souza. "Esthetics of Rupture"
    3. Italo Moriconi. "The Postmodern in Brazilian Literary Theory and Criticism"

  3. Ideologies and Imaginaries
    1. Hermann Herlinghaus. "Literature and Revolution in Latin America"
    2. Lucille Kerr. "Imagining Narrative Territories"
    3. Vera Follain de Figueiredo. "Utopic Theories in Brazil"
    4. Victor Hugo Adler Pereira. "Conservatism and Modernization in Brazil"
    5. Ana Cláudia Coutinho Viegas. "Cultural Theories in Brazil"
    6. Flávio Martins Carneiro. "Post-Utopian Imaginaries"

  4. By Way of Coda: In Anticipation
      Julio Ortega. "Scenes of the Twenty-First Century: The Routes of the New"

Working plan
revised August 10, 2001


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