General Colonial Bibliography

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Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001.

Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America, ed. Francisco Javier Cevallos-Candau, Jeffrey A. Cole, Nina M. Scott, Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz. Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 1994. Contents:

Mignolo, Walter. "The Movable Center: Geographical Discourses and Territoriality During the Expansion of the Spanish Empire"
Maureen Ahern. "The Articulation of Alterity on the Northern Froniter: The 'Relatione della navigatione y scoperta' by Fernando de Alarcon, 1540"
Abel Alves. "Of Peanuts and Bread: Images of the Raw and the Refined in the Sixteenth-Century Conquest of New Spain"
Rolena Adorno. "Peaceful Conquest and Law in the 'Relacion'of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca"
Lucia Helena Costigan "Colonial Literature and Social Reality in Brazil and the Viceroyalty of Peru: The Satirical Poetry of Gregorio de Matos and Juan del Valle y Caviedes"
Pedro Lasarte "Mateo Rosas de Oquendo's 'Satira': Carnival, Necromany and Political Subversion"
Raquel Chang-Rodriguez "Cultural Resistance in the Andes and Its Depiction in the 'Tragedy of Atahualpa's Death'"
Regina Harrison. "The Theology of Concupiscence: Spanish-Quechua Confessional Manuals in the Andes"
Asuncion Lavrin. "Lo femenino: Women in Colonial Historical Sources"
Stephanie Merrim. "Catalina de Erauso: From Anomaly to Icon"
Nina M. Scott. "'La gran turba de las que merecieron nombres': Sor Juana's Foremothers in 'La Respuesta a Sor Filotea'"
Antonio Carreno. "Of 'Orders' and 'Disorders': Analogy in the Baroque Lyric (from Gongora to Sor Juana)"
Julie Greer Johnson. "Satire and 18th Century Colonial Spanish-American Society"
Karen Stolley. "Concolorcorvo: Guide for Travelers in 18th Century Spanish America"
Antonio Benitez-Rojo. "Cirilo Villaverde, the Seeker of Origins"

Gerbi, Antonello. Nature in the New World: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 1985 [1975].

Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Hulme, Peter. Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797. New York: Methuen, 1986.

Johnson, Julie Greer. Satire in Colonial Spanish America: Turning the New World Upside Down. Austin: U TExas P, 1993.

Leonard, Irving A. Baroque Times in Old Mexico. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 1959.

Promis Ojeda, Jose. The Identity of Hispanoamerica: An Interpretation of Colonial Literature. Trans. Alita Kelley and Alec E. Kelley. Tucson: U Arizona P, 1991.

Todorov, Tzvetan. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.

Williams, Jerry M. El teatro del Mexico colonial: epoca misionera. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

Special issues of periodicals dealing with colonial topics:
Review: Latin American Literature and Arts. 1990 July-Dec (43). Special issue: "Colonial Literature and Art"

Revista de Estudios Hispanicos. 1989 October 23:3. "Las letras coloniales"

Journal of HIspanic Philology. 1992 Winter 16:2. "Dissenting Views of 1992"

Revista Iberoamericana. 1995 61:170-171. "Literatura Colonial: Identidades y Conquista en America."
and 61:172-173. "Sujeto colonial y discurso barroco."

Representations. 1991 Winter 33. "The New World"

Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana. 1996 22:43-44.
"Las poeticas coloniales y el origen del pensamiento teorico-critico en Hispanoamerica."

Bibliography on Columbus

Gerli, E. Michael. "Columbus and the Shape of the World: Authority and Experience in the 'Relacion' of the Third Voyage." Journal of Hispanic Philology 16 (1992): 209-222.

Wey-Gomez, Nicolas. "Cannibalism as Defacement: Columbus's Account of the Fourth Voyage." Journal of Hispanic Philology 16 (1992): 195-208.

Zamora, Margarita. Reading Columbus. Berkeley: U California P, 1993.

Bibliography on Colonial Poetry

This does not include bibliography on Sor Juana.

Aquila, August J. "Ercilla's Concept of the Ideal Soldier." Hispania 60:1 (March 1977): 68-75.

Castillo Sandoval, Roberto. "'Una misma cosa con la vuestra'?: Ercilla, Pedro de Ona y la apropiacion post-colonial de la patria aruacana." Revista Iberoamericana 61.170-71 (1995): 231-247.

Cevallos, Francisco Javier. "Don Alonso de Ercilla and the American Indian: History and Myth." Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 23.2 (1989): 1-20.

Cueva Dávila, Agustín. "El espejismo heróico de la conquista: ensayo de interpretación de 'La araucana'." Casa de las Américas 19:110 (September-October 1978): 29-40.

Gerli, E. Michael. "Elysium and the Cannibals: History and Humanism in Ercilla's La araucana". Renaissance and Golden Age Essay in Honor of D.W. McPheeters. Ed. Bruno M. Damiani. Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1986.

Hill, Ruth. "Between Reason and Piety: Inventio and Verisimilitude in Pedro de Peralta's Prologue to 'Lima fundada' (1732)". Dieciocho 17.2 (1994): 129-141.

Lasarte, Pedro. "Mateo Rosas de Oquendo y la escritura autobiografica." MLN 105.2 (1990): 373-384.

Melczer, William. "Ercilla's Divided Heroic Vision: A Re-evaluation of the Epic Hero in 'La Araucana'". Hispania 56 (April 1973): 216-221.

Perelmuter Pérez, Rosa. "El paisaje idealizado en 'La araucana'". Hispanic Review 54:2 (Spring 1986): 129-146.