Contents

pp v-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-x

Preface

pp xi-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-10

PART I - LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN COLOMBIA

pp 11-12

1 - Colonial realities and colonial literature in “Colombia”

pp 13-53

2 - Cosmography, ethnography, and the literary imagination of the New Kingdom of Granada

pp 54-67

3 - Colombian poetry from the colonial period to Modernismo (1500–1920)

pp 68-79

4 - Reflections on the historiography of the Colombian novel: 1844–1953 and beyond

pp 80-91

5 - Modern Colombian poetry: from modernismo to the twenty-first century

pp 92-122

6 - The late twentieth-century Colombian novel (1970–1999)

pp 123-142

7 - Twenty-first century fiction

pp 143-162

8 - Colombian theater: staging the sociopolitical body

pp 163-197

9 - The Colombian essay

pp 198-212

PART II - COLOMBIAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN REGIONAL CONTEXTS

pp 213-214

10 - Literature, culture, and society of the Magdalena River

pp 215-237

11 - The highland region as seen by an outsider from the inside and an insider from the outside

pp 238-252

12 - Racial fictions: constructing whiteness in nineteenth-century Colombian literature

pp 253-268

13 - Literature and culture in Antioquia: between stories and accounts

pp 269-286

14 - Colombian marginalized literatures

pp 287-308

PART III - BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES

pp 309-310

15 - García Márquez as public intellectual

pp 311-321

16 - Women writers in Colombia

pp 322-341

17 - Colombian queer narrative

pp 342-362

18 - Extracting nature: toward an ecology of Colombian narrative

pp 363-405

19 - Visions of nature: Colombian literature and the environment from the colonial period to the nineteenth century

pp 406-430

20 - The intersections between poetry and fiction in two Colombian writers of the twentieth century: Álvaro Mutis and Darío Jaramillo Agudelo

pp 431-454

AFTERWORDS

pp 455-456

21 - Colombian literature: national treasure or fraud?

pp 457-475