MLA Commons | Colonial Latin America | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-america/ Activity feed for the group, Colonial Latin America. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:39:36 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9b245edb4cc7232a2f6a9e39a80cc58c Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "Winking at his Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts" in the group Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880715/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:00:03 -0400 In this essay, I address the perception of confusion, entanglement, incomprehension, opacity, and enigmatic nature of Guamán Poma’s book that made scholars like Peruvian Historian Porras Barrenechea uncomfortable enough to push it to the margins of historical studies due to its perceived lack of value and merit. To this end, I briefly discuss ex…[Read more]

]]> 0 29b87314114436531b3e61f27a5901f0 Luis Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2025 NEW ORLEANS Colonial Latin American Literature Forum in the discussion Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-america/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-new-orleans-colonial-latin-american-literature-forum/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:50:39 -0500 LLC Colonial Latin American: Calls for Papers
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Enrique Dussel and the Colonial Foundation of Latin American Thought (In memoriam)
Proposals that examine the ethical, epistemological, and political thought contributions of Latin Am … See moreLuis Fernando Restrepo, University of ArkansasPosted Monday, 22 January…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcf79b4caf0bd48ba61fe018e21b215e Thomas Robert Ward uploaded the file: COLONIALITY AND THE RISE OF LIBERATION THINKING DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (Book flyer) to Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734877/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:18:29 -0400 Published by Arc-Humanities Press, COLONIALITY AND THE RISE OF LIBERATION THINKING DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY first explores the types of subordination in the New World, chattel slavery, the encomienda, peonage, and the disrespect for Christ’s axiom about separating Caesar and God. It then explores anti-hegemonic thought from Northern Europe,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fef6103a172cf71f56078c2591341b4b Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601670/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:49:16 -0500 Panel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]

]]> 0 e18c7aeb8ab3c8d6e73b3415ad5069c6 Kevin Sedeño-Guillén deposited La Apologia de los ingenios neogranadinos y la constitucion del canon de la literatura colombiana: Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez (1758-1819) in the group Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601260/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:05:59 -0500 Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez is presented here as a foundational figure regarding the formulation of the Colombian literary canon. It is maintained that his essay from 1792: “Satisfacción a un juicio poco exacto sobre la literatura y buen gusto, antiguo y actual, de los naturales de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá” [Satisfaction of a not quite…[Read more]

]]> 0 677d2ea93f63a711e8018cac2dfb01af Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers / convocatoria in the discussion Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-america/forum/topic/call-for-papers-convocatoria-2/ Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:28:13 -0400 “Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017). “Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more]

]]> 0 9be0abbce844551184f2b5f7ebf44be0 Rocio Quispe-Agnoli wrote a new blog post "In the Shadow of Cortés: From Veracruz to Mexico City" in the group Colonial Latin America https://coloniallatinamerica.mla.hcommons.org/2015/03/15/in-the-shadow-of-cortes-from-veracruz-to-mexico-city/ Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:16:40 -0400 A Photographic Exhibition and Events  (March 16-April 17, 2015) http://www.cal.msu.edu/Cortes
Photographic Exhibition prepared by Kathleen Myers (Professor of Colonial Latin American Literatures, Indiana University) and […]

]]> 3ca7bca7e83b9c4d0393bc9784a386f5 Rocio Quispe-Agnoli wrote a new blog post Codex Mendoza digitized and available on the web in the group Colonial Latin America https://coloniallatinamerica.mla.hcommons.org/2015/03/15/codex-mendoza-digitized-and-available-on-the-web/ Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:58:29 -0400 Thumbnail
Codex Mendoza was created in 1542 after the command of viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, who was seeking to have a comprehensive political, economic and social history of the newly conquered territories. This codex is […]

]]> 4e6b014e792e75944fa6192b76a2af62 Rocio Quispe-Agnoli wrote a new blog post El textil y la documentación del tributo en los Andes (book) in the group Colonial Latin America http://coloniallatinamerica.mla.hcommons.org/2014/10/06/el-textil-y-la-documentacion-del-tributo-en-los-andes-book/ Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:34:39 -0400 Denise ARNOLD. El textil y la documentación del tributo en los andes: Los significados del tejido en contextos trubutarios
Lima: Asamblea Nacional de Rectores, 2012.  285 p. ISBN: 9786124125058
El presente libro […]

]]> 72dc52057672e5a8bbe0b67544360590 Rocio Quispe-Agnoli started the topic 2014-Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinario: Guamán Poma de Ayala in the forum Colonial Latin America http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-america/forum/topic/2014-congreso-internacional-interdisciplinario-guaman-poma-de-ayala/ Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:30:49 -0400 Primer Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinario “Guaman Poma de Ayala: las Travesías Culturales”.

La Escuela Académico-Profesional de Literatura de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y el Posgrado Interdisciplinario en Estudios Latinoamericanos PPG-IELA de la  Universidade Federal da…[Read more]

]]> 0 81359132f2c1cc017ed17efe19a89982 Rocío Quispe Agnoli posted an update in the group Colonial Latin America: Dear colleagues and friends: We are happy to invite you to […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1038/ Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:29:14 -0500 Dear colleagues and friends:

We are happy to invite you to attend the sessions organized by the Division of Colonial Latin American Lits at the 128th MLA convention in Boston (Jan 3-6, 2013. Detailed information about session in our group’s blog.

]]> 1 6f809ac57ca84d16f9fddaec69dc884d Rocío Quispe Agnoli created the group Colonial Latin America https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1031/ Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:09:01 -0500 0