Acknowledgments  ix

Foreword / Shahid Amin  xi

1. Escritura: On Imagining/Writing Postcolonial Histories  

Point and Counterpoint / Andr�Guerrero  3

After Spanish Rule: Writing Another After / Mark Thurner  12

Essaying the History of National Images / Maricio Tenorio Trillo  58

2. Poetica: Knowledges, Nations, Histories  

Postcolonialism avante la lettre? Travelers and Clerics in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish America / Jorge Ca�izares-Esguerra  89

"Aquel laberinto de oficinas": Ways of Knowing Empire in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spain / Javier Morillo-Alicea  111

Peruvian Genealogies of History and Nation / Mark Thurner  141

Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivia Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro's Carnival / Thomas A. Abercrombie  176

3. Politica: Governmentalities, States, Subjects  

Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 18091815 / Marixa Lasso  223

Postcolonialism as Self-Fulfilled Prophecy? Electoral Politics in Oaxaca, 18141828 / Peter Guardino  248

The Administration of Dominated Populations under a Regime of Customary Citizenship: The Case of Postcolonial Ecuador / Andr�Guerrero  272

Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Colombia / Joanne Rappaport  310

Contributors  347

Index  349

Shahid Amin

Andrés Guerrero

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

Javier Morillo-Alicea

Mark Thurner

Thomas Abercrombie

Marixa Lasso

Peter Guardino

Joanne Rappaport

"[T]his book is a thoughtful assessment of Latin America in the postcolonial historiography. After Spanish Rule makes a significant contribution to the debate by providing evidence that counters the idea of Latin American exceptionalism. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students."—Charlotte M. Gradie, History: A Review of Books

"[A]n outstanding collection of essays. . . . [G]raduate students and theoretically-oriented scholars will find much to excite their minds in these engaging essays that demonstrate recent orientations in historians' engagement with postcolonial theory."—Rick López, The Americas

"[S]timuating. . . . [B]reaks some new ground in attempting to incorporate the former Spanish American colonies into discussions of postcolonialism."—Eric Van Young, American Historical Review

"[I]ntriguing. . . . [T]hese articles do assist the reader to comprehend new ways of seeing. . . ."—Timothy E. Anna, The International History Review

"After Spanish Rule is an important book, sparkling with insights and challenges to received wisdom. . . . [R]equired reading. . . . This volume proves that the engagement between Latin American and postcolonial studies is certainly worthwhile."—Peter Wogan, Journal of Anthropological Research

"[A] fine and timely volume. . . . After Spanish Rule is both intellectually coherent and full of lively discussion between contributors. There is a real sense of the distinct essays communicating with each other, and the reader would be well advised to read the whole book. It is a valuable critical addition to the slowly growing field of postcolonial studies in the Americas."—Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela, Journal of Latin American Studies

"[A] stimulating and provoking collection that reaches across a wide spectrum of fields and specialisations in order to overhaul the ways that we think about the period after Spanish rule. As Simón Bolívar might have reflected upon reading a volume such as this, ploughing the sea might have to be the first hesitant step towards serving the revolution."—Matthew Brown, Bulletin of Latin American Research

"[T]his book is a thoughtful assessment of Latin America in the postcolonial historiography. After Spanish Rule makes a significant contribution to the debate by providing evidence that counters the idea of Latin American exceptionalism. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students."—Charlotte M. Gradie, History: A Review of Books

"[A]n outstanding collection of essays. . . . [G]raduate students and theoretically-oriented scholars will find much to excite their minds in these engaging essays that demonstrate recent orientations in historians' engagement with postcolonial theory."—Rick López, The Americas

"[S]timuating. . . . [B]reaks some new ground in attempting to incorporate the former Spanish American colonies into discussions of postcolonialism."—Eric Van Young, American Historical Review

"[I]ntriguing. . . . [T]hese articles do assist the reader to comprehend new ways of seeing. . . ."—Timothy E. Anna, The International History Review

"After Spanish Rule is an important book, sparkling with insights and challenges to received wisdom. . . . [R]equired reading. . . . This volume proves that the engagement between Latin American and postcolonial studies is certainly worthwhile."—Peter Wogan, Journal of Anthropological Research

"[A] fine and timely volume. . . . After Spanish Rule is both intellectually coherent and full of lively discussion between contributors. There is a real sense of the distinct essays communicating with each other, and the reader would be well advised to read the whole book. It is a valuable critical addition to the slowly growing field of postcolonial studies in the Americas."—Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela, Journal of Latin American Studies

"[A] stimulating and provoking collection that reaches across a wide spectrum of fields and specialisations in order to overhaul the ways that we think about the period after Spanish rule. As Simón Bolívar might have reflected upon reading a volume such as this, ploughing the sea might have to be the first hesitant step towards serving the revolution."—Matthew Brown, Bulletin of Latin American Research

“After Spanish Rule occupies the ground between Latin American exceptionalism and the so-called universalism of postcolonial studies. These essays enrich the field of postcolonial studies by bringing Latin American materials within its purview.”—Gyan Prakash, editor of After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements

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