Author Bio

Nelsy Echavez-Solano is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at St. John's University in Minnesota.

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Kenya C. Dworkin y Mendez is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Main Description

Essays in this volume deal with the historical, linguistic, and ideological legacy of the Spanish Empire and its language in the New World.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents


Introduction
Revisiting Spanish and Empire
Nelsy Echvez-Solano and Kenya C. Dworkin y Mndez

Part I: Imperial Legacy-Language and Power in the Spanish Colonial Sphere

1 Languages, Catholicism and Power
in the Hispanic Empire (1500-1770)
Juan R. Lodares

2 Echoes of the Voiceless:
Language in Jesuit Missions in Paraguay
Fernando Ordez

3 Languages and Imperial Designs in the Andes
Juan Carlos Godenzzi

Part II: Language and Resistance-The Fight for National and Individual Identities

4 Exploring the Problematics of Non-Castilian
Emigration to the Americas through la vida cuartizada
of Joan/Juan Torrendell
Thomas Harrington

5 The Foxes by Jos Mara Arguedas:
A Death Warrant for Peru's Modern National Project
Jos Gimnez Mic

6 Nuyorican Poetry, Tactics for Local Resistance
Susan Campbell

7 Latino, Latin American, Spanish American, North American,
or All at the Same Time?
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