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
Chapter 1
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
Chapter 2
Grandeza Mexicana and the Lakes of Mexico City: Economy and Ontology in Colonial Technological Development
Ivonne del Valle
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Humboldt in the Orinoco and the Environmental Humanities
Jorge Marcone
Part II: Rivers and the Predicament of Building the Nation
Chapter 5
Ariana Crosses the Atlantic: An Archaeology of Aryanism in the Nineteenth-Century River Plate
Ruth Hill
Chapter 6
Treacherous Waters: Shipwrecked Landscapes and the Possibilities for Nationalistic Emplacement in Brazilian Representations of the Amazon
Mark D. Anderson
Chapter 7
Identity, Engagement, and the Space of the River in Cumandá
Lee Joan Skinner
Part III: The Fate of Modernity, the Turn of the Postmodern
Chapter 8
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)
Chapter 9
Blood in the Water: Salvadoran Rivers of Testimony and Resistance
Adrian Taylor Kane
Chapter 10
Counter (Current) Discourses: Rivers in William Ospina's Ursúa and El país de la canela
Ilka Kressner
Chapter 11
Rural and Urban Rivers: Displacements and Replacements in the Modern Latin American Novel
Raymond Leslie Williams
Afterword
Adriana Gordillo and Nicholas Spadaccini