This article proposes an affective turn in scholarship on colonial Latin American literature, focusing on Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s 'Naufragios' as a case study. Through an engagement with embodied, intersubjective, and circulatory affects in Cabeza de Vaca’s text, it sketches out a critical framework that investigates what I call the exteriority of feeling in the colonial Americas. My reading focuses on three main areas: the theory of the humoral body as the cultural referent that shapes the externalization of embodied affect in Cabeza de Vaca’s text, the description of forms of affective transmission precariously established between European and indigenous communities, and the emergence of affective minefields and emotional untranslata...
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This is the story of a double haunting. On one hand, Spanish explorers and conquerors (Conquistador...
The well-known and supposedly “timeless” ludic Mexican attitude toward death exemplified by the Day ...
Este artículo analiza la historiografía reciente de la última década sobre América colonial en los c...
This essay explores Central American diasporic experiences in the US as sites for the continued exer...
This paper zooms in on the notion of coloniality with a view to understanding how it is rehearsed in...
This article explores the role of stories of encounter as sites for post-colonial redefinitions of t...
The formation of the Spanish American discourse entails an array of sources that can be identified s...
Many authors, in the early modern era, speculated on the origins of the indigenous people in the Ame...
This article explores Mexico Northern border economic, demographic and social development, and the r...
This absorbing book brings together two works written by two seemingly dissimilar figures who share ...
Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain reconsiders debates ...
This dissertation expands the understanding of migrants’ emotions beyond individual internal process...
Published in 1542, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación is a chronicle of the Pánfilo de Narváez...
This thesis examines the relaciónes (report) Naufragios (1542) and Comentarios (1555) with the inten...
The hermeneutic resources necessary for understanding Indigenous women’s lives in Latin America have...
This is the story of a double haunting. On one hand, Spanish explorers and conquerors (Conquistador...
The well-known and supposedly “timeless” ludic Mexican attitude toward death exemplified by the Day ...
Este artículo analiza la historiografía reciente de la última década sobre América colonial en los c...