Introduction: between colonialism and coloniality: colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias PART I Colonialism and Coloniality Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies Daniel Nemser Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America Karen Graubart Mestizaje as dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies Laura Catelli Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo in Spanish America José Antonio Mazzotti An integrational approach to colonial semiosis Galen Brokaw Latin American and Caribbean Colonial Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn Nelson Maldonado-Torres The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the Caribbean: of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert Coloniality and Cinema Juan Poblete PART II Knowledge Production and Networks Old testament, New World: diluvialism and the Amerindian origins debate in the Enlightenment Ruth Hill The "cannibal cogito" and Brazilian antropofagia: radical heterogeneity or "family resemblance"? Luís Madureira Presumptions of empire: relapses, reboots, and reversions in the Transpacific networks of Iberian globalization John D. Blanco Imperial tension, colonial contours: Jesuits, slavery, and race within and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic Hugh Cagle The Caribbean conundrum: José Antonio Saco’s Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic Eyda Merediz PART III Materialities and Archives Material Encounters: Columbus’s Diario del primer viaje and the objects of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies Raquel Albarrán It comes with the territory: indigenous materialities and western knowledge Gustavo Verdesio Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico: religion, gender and power Stephanie Kirk The colonial Latin American archive: dispossession, ruins, reinvention Anna More Materialities and archives Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century Spanish America Mariselle Meléndez Space, movement and writing in Colonial Río de la Plata Loreley El Jaber PART IV Language, Translation and Beyond The white legend: El Dorado, Pachakuti, and Walter Raleigh’s discovery of (Latin) America Ralph Bauer The agency of translation in colonial Latin America: re-thinking the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries Larissa Brewer-García Intercultural (mis)translations: colonial static and "authorship" in the Florentine Codex and the Relaciones geográficas of New Spain Kelly McDonough Defending the indefensible: Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty Nicole Legnani The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity in the Andes Michael Horswell Notes on contributors
