Troubled Waters
Rivers in Latin American Imagination
Ed. Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli and Ana María Mutis
Introduction
Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli and Ana María Mutis
Part I: Imperial Tropicalities, Colonial Waterways
- Watershed of Sorrows: The Epic of Impossibility and New Theorizations of Tropicalia in El epítome de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada
Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli - Grandeza Mexicana and the Lakes of Mexico City: Economy and Ontology in Colonial Technological Development
Ivonne del Valle - The Intellectual Conquest of the Orinoco: Filippo Salvatore Gilij's Sagio di storia americana (1780–1784)
Santa Arias - Humboldt in the Orinoco and the Environmental Humanities
Jorge Marcone
Part II: Rivers and the Predicament of Building the Nation
- Ariana Crosses the Atlantic: An Archaeology of Aryanism in the Nineteenth-Century River Plate
Ruth Hill - Treacherous Waters: Shipwrecked Landscapes and the Possibilities for Nationalistic Emplacement in Brazilian Representations of the Amazon
Mark D. Anderson - Identity, Engagement, and the Space of the River in Cumandá
Lee Joan Skinner
Part III: The Fate of Modernity, the Turn of the Postmodern
- The Death of the River and the River of Death: The Magdalena River in El amor de los tiempos del cólera and La novia oscura
Ana María Mutis (Translated by Pablo J. Davis) - Blood in the Water: Salvadoran Rivers of Testimony and Resistance
Adrian Taylor Kane - Counter (Current) Discourses: Rivers in William Ospina's Ursúa and El país de la canela
Ilka Kressner - Rural and Urban Rivers: Displacements and Replacements in the Modern Latin American Novel
Raymond Leslie Williams
Afterword
Adriana Gordillo and Nicholas Spadaccini