Friday, May 23, 8:00 to 9:45am

Women’s Stories. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Pablo Javier Ansolabehere (Universidad de San Andrés)

1. “Doña Manuela Tupac Amaru: Visual and Textual Fabrication of Inca Nobility in Late Colonial Peru,” Sara V Guengerich (Texas Tech University)
2. “El mal histérico que llaman latido: la divulgación médica y la idea de un orden social en la Nueva España del XVIII,” Sofia Calzada-Orihuela (University of Maryland/College Park)
3. “Las delicias de la hacienda: lo femenino opresor en Luz y sombra de Ana Roqué de Duprey,” Juan C López (University of Texas/Austin)
4. “Re-writing the foundational fiction: Acosta de Samper’s Una holandesa en América,” Kristen Meylor (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday, May 23, 10:00 to 11:45am

Tlaxcalan Colonial Spaces: Economics, Social Class, and Textuality. Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Session Organizer: Juan Jose Daneri (East Carolina University). Chair: Kelly S McDonough (University of Texas at Austin). Discussant: Jeanne L Gillespie (University of Southern Mississippi)

1. “‘The Passing unto All Humankind’: Columbus, Isis and the Conquest of Tenochtitlan in Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala,” Jannette Amaral-Rodríguez (Columbia University)
2. “Financial Consolidation and Socio-Political Attainment: The Muñoz Camargo Family of Tlaxcala,” Juan Jose Daneri (East Carolina University)
3. “Where is the Love? Nahua Narrations of Socio-Political Change in Seventeenth-Century Tlaxcala,” Kelly S McDonough (University of Texas at Austin)
4. “Escribanos, tradición escritural y negociación política. Los Anales tlaxcaltecas, s. XVI – XVII,” Lidia E Gómez García (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla)

Abstract: The purpose of this panel is to revisit and expand the relevance of Tlaxcalan cultural products in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The panel explores issues of coloniality as related to three spaces (financial, socio-ethnic, textual) in three different but significantly and chronologically adjacent periods (height of ‘Indian’ cabildo rule, decline of hegemony of local nobility, social disorder and institutional disruption). The presentations examine coloniality as a local as well as a regional phenomenon, and utilize a variety of primary sources that have not been fully incorporated into critical studies, such as European mythographic manuals, archival documentation, and chronicles in Nahuatl.

Friday, May 23, 12:00 to 1:45pm

(Re)Envisioning Colonial America: Aesthetic Strategies for New Political Realities. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Alberto Villate Isaza (St. Olaf College). Chair: Jonathan P O’Conner (St. Olaf College)

1. “Representations of Liberal Ideology in Felipe Pérez’s ‘Huayna Capac’ and ‘Atahuallpa’”, Alberto Villate Isaza (St. Olaf College)
2. “Ignacio Merino and the Pictorial Reconfiguration of ‘Lima por dentro y fuera’,” Dexter J Hough-Snee (University of California/Berkeley)
3. “Rewriting the Conquest: The Female Protagonists of Matilde Asensi’s ‘Tierra firme’ and Isabel Allende’s ‘Inés del alma mía’,” Jonathan P O’Conner (St. Olaf College)

Abstract: Through the analysis of the literary and the pictorial, this panel explores the way in which artists appropriate and re-characterize the colonial past of Latin America in order to respond to their political present. The works addressed by this panel use a variety of strategies to comment on countries’ political instability or to reconcile a problematic past with modern democratic ideals. This panel discusses the ideological motivations behind the different strategies used by the authors and artists to reflect on the past, and considers their important role in Latin America’s cultural production and their relation to changing political realities.

Friday, May 23, 2:00 to 3:45pm

Remembering the Archive: Transhistorical Approaches to Archival Narratives in Latin America. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Germán Campos-Muñoz (Young Harris College). Chair: Jose J Alvarez (South Dakota State University). Discussant: Anna H More (University of California/Los Angeles).

1. “Breaking Records: The Huarochirí Manuscript as Synchronic Archive,” Caroline R Egan (Stanford University)
2. “At the Constellation’s Center: The Archival Presence and Absence of Gregório de Matos,” Micah Donohue (Pennsylvania State University)
3. “Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo and the Elasticity of the Archive,” Germán Campos-Muñoz (Young Harris College)
4. “Diagnosis and Detection. The Mechanics of the Archive in Eduardo Holmberg’s La bolsa de huesos,” Jose J Alvarez (South Dakota State University)

Abstract: Operating as primary foundation for enactments of cultural memory, archives are also the origin of authority and witnesses of political action. This panel seeks to interrogate different figurations of the archive produced in Latin American literature, from early colonial accounts through 19th-century narratives, with the purpose of comparing different archival models, hypothesizing genealogies of this phenomenon, and interrogating the theoretical apparatuses (i.e. Derrida, Foucault, González Echevarría, etc.) that have recently explored the problem of the archive. Paper topics include: the Huarochirí Manuscript; works by Gregório de Matos, Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo, and Eduardo L. Holmberg.

Friday, May 23, 6:00 to 7:45pm

El poder femenino bajo el control discursivo: ejemplaridad, disciplina y transgresión femenina en la producción textual y visual de la colonia hispanoamericana. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizers: Ana Maria Diaz-Burgos (Emory University) and Yolopattli I Hernández-Torres (Loyola University Maryland).

1. “Éxtasis visual: Rosa de Lima y la experiencia visionaria en la colonial,” Jimena Castro
2. “Cotidianidades de la decadencia: vicios, crímenes y contrición femenina en la Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí,” Ana Maria Diaz-Burgos (Emory University)
3. “Niños de nadie, niños de Dios: La función de la Casa de Niños Expósitos en la colonia tardía novohispana,” Yolopattli I Hernández-Torres (Loyola University Maryland)

Abstract: De manera similar a la metrópolis, en las colonias españolas, la ejemplaridad y la disciplina se convirtieron en formas de control social preventivas que pretendían bien incentivar los motivos que se tenían para acatar las reglas establecidas por los sistemas legales y religiosos, bien erradicar aquellos motivos que llevaban a su transgresión. Este panel propone analizar las dinámicas sociales desarrolladas a partir de los diferentes procesos utilizados por las instituciones oficiales como el estado y la iglesia para adoctrinar, inquirir o ajusticiar a los sujetos coloniales. Además, busca explorar casos de ejemplaridad, disciplina y transgresión que dan cuenta de las múltiples facetas de estos sujetos desde perspectivas judiciales y cívicas en casos legales, así como en periódicos, crónicas, narrativas de viaje, y representaciones iconográficas. En este panel se explorarán preguntas como: ¿Qué tipo de comportamientos sociales se pretendía emular y cuáles erradicar desde ámbitos religiosos, morales y/o legales? ¿Qué tipo de contravenciones sociales eran castigadas legal, moral y/o religiosamente y cómo se llevaban a cabo los castigos? ¿Quiénes eran protagonistas este tipo de casos? Estas preguntas serán el punto de partida para cuestionar el funcionamiento y el atrofiamiento de los modelos religiosos, morales, y legales que circulaban en las colonias españolas y que determinaron el comportamiento de los sujetos coloniales que intentaban ajustarse a ellos, evadirlos o transgredirlos.

Friday, May 23, 7:30-9:30

 Colonial Section Reception, Tanta Peruvian restaurant