Colonialism past and present : reading and writing about Colonial Latin American today.

Index.

Colonialism now and then: Colonial Latin American studies in the light of the predicament of Latin Americanism / Gustavo Verdesio -- On the issues of academic Colonization and responsibility when reading and writing about Colonial Latin American today / Álvaro Félix Bolaños -- Pre-Columbian pasts and Indian presents in Mexican History / José Rabasa -- Confronting imaginations: towards an alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza / Cora Lagos -- Narrating Colonial inteventions: Don Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmequé in the New Kingdom of Granada / Luis Fernando Restrepo -- (Post-) Colonial sublime: order and indeterminacy in eighteenth-century spanish-american poetics and aesthetics / Antony Higgins -- Gendered crime and punishment in New Spain: inquisitional cases against Ilusas / Stacey Schlau -- Representing Gender, deviance, and heterogeneity in the eighteenth-century peruvian newspaper Mercurio Peruano / Mariselle Meléndez -- The dragon and the seashell: british corsairs, epic poetry and creole nation in viceregal Peru / José Antonio Mazzotti -- History and plunder in El carnero: writing, among indians, a History of spaniards and euro-americans in Colonial Spanish America / Álvaro Félix Bolaños -- The literary appropriation of the american landscape: the historical novels of Abel Posse and Juan José Saer and their critics / Gustavo Verdesio -- Aferword: "Writing with his thumb in the air": coloniality, past and present / Sara Castro Klarén.