Coded encounters : writing, gender, and ethnicity in colonial Latin America / edited by Francisco Javier Cevallos-Candau [and others].

"A selection of papers presented at the 1990 Five College Symposium "Reflections of Social Reality: Writings in Colonial Latin America"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-286) and index.

Much has been written about the ways in which Columbus's "discovery" of America began a process of inventing a new world in European consciousness. But far less has been published about those on the margins of the dominant European discourse - Amerindians, Africans, and women - whose experience is reflected in documents written during the early years of European rule in Latin America. This volume brings together essays by leading scholars of colonial Latin America who address a series of topics relating to both the marginal and European-dominant discourses. The book is divided into five sections: "Representing the New World," "The Institutionalization of the Colony," "Amerindian Texts," "Women in Colonial Latin America," and "The Later Colony and the Caribbean Experience." The essays range from a consideration of Amerindian codes of mapmaking to the career of a transvestite nun, from confessional "sin lists" used by priests to examine the transgressions of their American charges to a new view of colonial women's lives based on birth records, dowry agreements, and wills.

Introduction / Francisco Javier Cevallos-Candau -- pt. 1. Representing the New World: The movable center : geographical discourses and territoriality during the expansion of the Spanish Empire / Walter O. Mignolo -- The articulation of alterity on the northern frontier : the Relatione della navigatione & scoperta by Fernando de Alarc�on, 1540 / Maureen Ahern -- Of peanuts and bread : images of the raw and the refined in the sixteenth-century conquest of New Spain / Abel A. Alves -- pt. 2. The institutionalization of the colony: Peaceful conquest and law in theRelaci�on (Account) of Alvar N�u�nez Cabeza de Vaca / Rolena Adorno -- Colonial literature and social reality in Brazil and the Viceroyalty of Peru : the satirical poetry of Greg�orio de Matos and Juan del Valle y Caviedes / L�ucia Helena S. Costigan -- Mateo Rosas de Oquendo's S�atira : carnival, necromancy and political subversion / Pedro Lasarte -- pt. 3. Amerindian and Proamerindian texts: Cultural resistance in the Andes and its depiction in Atau Wallpaj P'uchukakuyninpa Wankan or Tragedy of Atahualpa's death / Raquel Chang-Rodr�iguez -- The theology of concupiscence : Spanish-Quechua confessional manuals in the Andes / Regina Harrison -- pt. 4. Women in colonial Latin America: Lo femenino : women in colonial historical sources / Asunci�on Lavrin -- Catalina de Erauso : from anomaly to icon / Stephanie Merrim -- "La gran turba de las que merecieron nombres" : Sor Juana's foremothers in "La respuesta a Sor Filotea / Nina M. Scott -- Of "orders" and "disorders" : analogy in the baroque lyric (from G�ongora to Sor Juan) / Antonio Carre�no -- pt. 5. Late colonial times: Satire and eighteenth-century colonial Spanish-American society / Julie Greer Johnson -- Concolorcorvo : guide for travelers in eighteenth-century Spanish America / Karen Stolley -- Cirilo Villaverde, the seeker of origins / Antonio Ben�itez-Rojo.

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