Relating Continents: Coloniality and Global Encounters in Romance Literary and Cultural History 9783110796308, 9783110796193

Table of contents :
Contents
Tales of the World
Between America, Asia, and Africa
Literate Circulations between India and Brazil in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Enemigos encubiertos
Inflection Points of the Colonial Necropolitical Machine
The Development of Modern Racial Discourse in Alonso de Sandoval’s De instauranda Aethiopum salute
Transcontinental Writing
Speculative Encounters in the New World
Trading Goods, Trading Souls between Seville and las Indias
Founders, Discoverers, and Conquistadors in the 1577 Relaciones geográficas of Colonial Mexico
Native Agencies
Encounters between Indigenous Communities and Vásquez de Coronado’s Expedition to the Northern Part of New Spain according to Pedro Castañeda Nájera’s Relación de la Jornada de Cibola
The Crossroads of the World
Tiahuanaco and Sacsayhuamán
Contemplative Devotions in Colonial Mexico
Index