Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America Water Marks

Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical “turn” known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and socie...

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Other Authors: Moraña, Mabel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Maritime Literature and Culture
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Texts, Textures, and Water Marks
  • 2. The Pacific Ocean as a Space of Freedom, Danger, and Economic Success for the Colonial Project in Verdadera descripción de la Provincia y Tierra de Las Esmeraldas
  • 3. English and Irish Missionaries in New Spain: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Religion and Empire
  • 4. On Paper Ships, Sailors, and Cosmographers: Spanish Maritime Narratives and Political Networks of an Imperial Project
  • 5. Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts
  • 6. Alonso Ramírez’s Circumnavigation of the World (1675–1689) and the Universal Claim to the American Spirit in the Open Seas
  • 7. Pantitlán or Desagüe: Technology and Secularization in Colonial Mexico City
  • 8. “Water, Only Water on All Parts”: Re/imagining the Middle Passage in Teresa Cárdenas’ Mãe Sereia