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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Mulieris Litterarum”: Oral, Visual, and Written Narratives of Indigenous Elite Women. in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoWomen’s literary expression in Latin America started as a crossroads of rhetorical practices and textual devices that included the knowledge and transmission of oral traditions, visual iconic narratives, tangible systems of record keeping, and the incorporation of the alphabetic script. I propose to look at the written production of Indigenous w…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Mulieris Litterarum”: Oral, Visual, and Written Narratives of Indigenous Elite Women. in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoWomen’s literary expression in Latin America started as a crossroads of rhetorical practices and textual devices that included the knowledge and transmission of oral traditions, visual iconic narratives, tangible systems of record keeping, and the incorporation of the alphabetic script. I propose to look at the written production of Indigenous w…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Mulieris Litterarum”: Oral, Visual, and Written Narratives of Indigenous Elite Women. on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
Women’s literary expression in Latin America started as a crossroads of rhetorical practices and textual devices that included the knowledge and transmission of oral traditions, visual iconic narratives, tangible systems of record keeping, and the incorporation of the alphabetic script. I propose to look at the written production of Indigenous w…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited El Debate Sobre la Caballería en el Siglo XV on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
In this book I argue that the political and legal debates regarding chivalry in 15th century Castile unveil the potentialities of chivalry as a social-class building artifact that was used by plebeians to access nobility, by monarchs to reinvent the leading political classes, and by nobility to curb the power of bourgeoisie. I study the tradition…[Read more]
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Alex Saum-Pascual created the doc MLA 23 Machine (Working) Conditions in the group
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Mestizos (in)deseables en el Perú colonial temprano. [(Un)Desirable mestizos in early colonial Peru] in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoIn early seventeenth century, Francisco de Avila, Huarochiri’s extirpator of idolatries, and Guaman Poma de Ayala rejected the mestizo either for personal convenience or as a matter of concern for the fate of the Andean race. This article examines the places of enunciation from which these and other authors categorized some individuals as u…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Simulando el testimonio de vista: los “indios del Perú” de la Historia de José de Acosta a la imprenta de Theodore De Bry. in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis essay studies the textual and visual representation of “the Indians of Peru” and their place in the illustrated edition of the Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590) by José de Acosta, prepared by the sons of publisher Theodore De Bry. Such edition was published in 1601-1602 as the ninth volume of The Great Voyages. This essay disc…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Mestizos (in)deseables en el Perú colonial temprano. [(Un)Desirable mestizos in early colonial Peru] on MSU Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
In early seventeenth century, Francisco de Avila, Huarochiri’s extirpator of idolatries, and Guaman Poma de Ayala rejected the mestizo either for personal convenience or as a matter of concern for the fate of the Andean race. This article examines the places of enunciation from which these and other authors categorized some individuals as u…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Simulando el testimonio de vista: los “indios del Perú” de la Historia de José de Acosta a la imprenta de Theodore De Bry. on MSU Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
This essay studies the textual and visual representation of “the Indians of Peru” and their place in the illustrated edition of the Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590) by José de Acosta, prepared by the sons of publisher Theodore De Bry. Such edition was published in 1601-1602 as the ninth volume of The Great Voyages. This essay disc…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Waman Poma, autor indígena do século XVI: questionando antropocentrismos no colonialocenos” [Guaman Poma, 17th-century Indigenous author: Questioning Anthropocentrism in the Colonialocene] in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoBased on a critical and reflective reading of Guaman Poma’s “New Chronicle and Good Government” (1615) [Nueva corónica y buen gobierno], this essay departs from the understanding of Waman Poma’s work as an “Opera Aperta” (Quispe-Agnoli 2020). Visual and written texts are understood initially as written-visual semantic fields that stimulat…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Waman Poma, autor indígena do século XVI: questionando antropocentrismos no colonialocenos” [Guaman Poma, 17th-century Indigenous Author: Questioning Anthropocentrism in the Colonialicene] on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Based on a critical and reflective reading of Guaman Poma’s “New Chronicle and Good Government” (1615) [Nueva corónica y buen gobierno], this essay departs from the understanding of Waman Poma’s work as an “Opera Aperta” (Quispe-Agnoli 2020). Visual and written texts are understood initially as written-visual semantic fields that stimulat…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Religio-Visual Cultures in the Digital Age in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHow are various new media forms (e.g. apps, memes, gaming avatars, Webcast rites) creating performative representations of religion? 200-word proposals by March 15. Manisha Basu, U of Illinois, Urbana (mbasu@illinois.edu ) Adrienne Brown, U of Chicago (adrienneb@uchicago.edu ).
More information: How have visual digital forms supplemented r…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Detective Fiction and Religious Imaginaries in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHow do cleric-sleuths or other religious detective figures (e.g., Cadfael, Granchester, Father Brown, etc.) navigate/challenge religion alongside police or state-sponsored will-to-knowledge? 200-word proposal to mbasu@illinois.edu by March 10.
More information: From G.K. Chesterton’s ‘Father Brown’ to Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael, from Harry…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Making Sacred, Making Holy: the Canonization of People and Texts in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMemorialization, “entering the canon,” and the influence of politics, race, class, or gender. Who decides on the people, texts, places, dates, etc. selected to be commemorated, studied, and/or enshrined? Theorists such as Lonergan, Bourdieu, Girard, and Agamben have explored “sacralization” as a process of making holy or sacred that can inv…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
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Jesús R. Velasco changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
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Jesús R. Velasco's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Sujeto colonial” [Colonial Subject] in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis essay-entry reviews and reflects upon the term “sujeto colonial” as a key concept of Latin American literary and cultural studies. A review of its definitions within the context of Latin American studies of colonialism and coloniality allows to observe (a) the criticism paradigms within which “sujeto colonial” has been defined in the last…[Read more]
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