Colonialism past and Present Book

	Colonialism Now and Then: Colonial Latin American Studies in the Light of the Predicament of Latin Americanism	1
	On the Issues of Academic Colonization and Responsibility when Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America today	19
	Pre-Columbian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History	51
	Confronting Imaginations: Towards an alternative reading of the Codex Mendoza	79
	Narrating Colonial Interventions: Don Diego de Torres, Cacique of Turmeque in the New Kingdom of Granada	97
	(Post-)Colonial Sublime: Order and Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-century Spanish American Poetics and Aesthetics	119
	Gendered Crime and Punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional Cases Against Ilusas	151
	Representing Gender, Deviance, and Heterogeneity in the Eighteenth-Century Peruvian Newspaper Mercurio Peruano	175
	The Dragon and the Seashell: British Corsairs, Epic Poetry and Creole Nation in Viceregal Peru	197
	History and Plunder in El carnero: Writing, among Indians, a History of Spaniards and Euro-Americans in Colonial Spanish America	215
	The Literary Appropriation of the American Landscape: The Historical Novels of Abel Posse and Juan Saer and Their Critics	239
	Afterword: "Writing with his thumb in the air": Coloniality, Past and Present	261
	Index	289