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  • Chapter 14 - Transcultural Intertextuality in Colonial Latin America

  • from Part IV - Literacies
  • Edited by Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University, Amber Brian, University of Iowa
  • Book:
    Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
    Published online:
    25 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 211-227

  • Summary

    The Latin American colonial period was a time of intense military, economic, social, political, and religious upheaval. Although European colonial expansion eradicated or seriously emaciated many indigenous societies and imposed itself on them politically and culturally, the conquest and colonization of the Americas was also a period of transculturation in which new symbolic forms–racial, religious, political, social, even gastronomic–emerged from the interaction between European and indigenous cultures. In some cases, the results of transculturation are relatively easy to identify, but the interaction between alphabetic writing and indigenous media such as Mesoamerican iconography and the Andean quipu is much more difficult to detect. This chapter proposes a theory of transcultural intertextuality as a model for understanding the nature of this interaction and a basis for the identification and analysis of particular instances.