Places of History

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of Graduates Studies in Spanish, Harvard University. She is the author of Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America.

"Sommer has compiled a selection of interesting essays written by a distinguished group of US-based academics"--Choice " ... a good collection, not least because they are a revealing snapshot of the state of the art of studies on Latin American culture in the US. Many of the prominent names in the field are represented here ..."--Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 79 (2002)

• The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America / Doris Sommer The Corpus Delicti / Josefina Ludmer Overwriting Pinochet: Undoing the Culture of Fear in Chile / Mary Louise Pratt The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis / Roberto Schwarz Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism / Walter D. Mignolo The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / JosÉ Antonio Mazzotti The True History of Early Modern Writing in Spanish: Some American Reflections / Mary M. Gaylord The Burden of Modernity / Carlos J. Alonso Salvador Brau: The Paradox of the Autonomista Tradition / Arcadio DÍaz-QuiÑones Nation and Mockery: The Oppositional Writings of SimÓn RodrÍguez / Susana Rotker Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America's Fin de Siglo / Francine Masiello Italian Opera in Early National Mexico / Nancy Vogeley The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta) / John Beverley Reading Loose Women Reading / Debra A. Castillo "Damnable Iteration": The Traps of Political Spectacle / Diana Taylor JosÉ JoaquÍn FernÁndez de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project / Antonio BenÍtez-Rojo Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States: Caballero, a Late Border Romance / JosÉ E. LimÓn The Repose of Heroes / Julio Ramos His America, Our America: JosÉ MartÍ Reads Whitman / Sylvia Molloy Broken English Memories / Juan Flores